{"id":1063,"date":"2008-06-27T13:52:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T21:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2008-06-27T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T21:52:56","slug":"summer-in-the-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Summer in the Suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was totally going to write, &#8220;Ha ha I am on my porch blogging wirelessly, SUCKAS&#8221; and then of course I got out there and lost the signal so now I&#8217;m back inside.<\/p>\n<p>While I was on my porch, though, I heard someone calling his son, &#8220;Griffin&#8230;where&#8217;s Griffin&#8230;&#8221; and remembered that this morning at a park quite a way from here I saw another little boy named Griffin and I don&#8217;t think I could name a kid Griffin any more than I could name one Minotaur.  Wouldn&#8217;t you be seeing the <i>thing<\/i> every time you looked at the kid?  Griffins are kind of cool but in my mind they are totally associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/altreligion.about.com\/library\/graphics\/griffin5.jpg\"> this <\/a> and I can&#8217;t put a human face to the word at all.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like every time I look at Trombone I think of marching bands.  <\/p>\n<p>(ba-dum-dum)<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had a beer. It is finally summery today; sweaty, hot beer weather.  Tomorrow I will have a beer. And a shower.  Today I realized I could just wipe under my arms with baby wipes and then apply more pit-stick and that&#8217;s basically as good as a shower.  Right?<\/p>\n<p>Hey where&#8217;d you all go?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much it.  I was just going to sit outside and be inspired by nature, do some sweet natureblogging.  But since I can&#8217;t, I&#8217;m struck by how very little I have to say.  Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=627\"> two years ago today <\/a> for your reading pleasure.  Apparently The Mizzle (read The World) has been chock full of nuts for quite some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was totally going to write, &#8220;Ha ha I am on my porch blogging wirelessly, SUCKAS&#8221; and then of course I got out there and lost the signal so now I&#8217;m back inside. While I was on my porch, though, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=1063\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggity","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}