{"id":930,"date":"2007-11-15T20:37:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T04:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2007-11-15T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T04:37:25","slug":"you-take-the-good-you-take-the-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"You Take the Good.  You Take the Bad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad: Up until yesterday I was trying to spend quality time on transit with &#8220;Neuromancer,&#8221; a book by William Gibson that I thought Saint Aardvark recommended to me when in fact he recommended &#8220;Virtual Light.&#8221;  For good reason, as it turns out.  Yesterday I finally gave up and put Neuromancer back on the shelf.  I thought &#8211; well, I will just spend time THINKING on transit, that way I will have more ideas for my &#8216;blog!<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon as I prepared to leave work, the idea of spending 45 minutes THINKING made me feel very sad inside so I took a trip to the kitchen at work, where there is a shelf of old trashy books.  Two Danielle Steele novels, several Tom Clancy novels, Shirley MacLaine&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing in the Light,&#8221; and an Erma Bombeck book.  Motherhood, the Oldest Profession, I think it&#8217;s called.  Because I have read both of the Danielle Steele novels (True!) I took the Belva Plain novel.  It&#8217;s called &#8220;Whispers.&#8221;  It&#8217;s about a woman whose husband beats her.  It&#8217;s like a Judith Light movie of the week.  I read approximately 50 pages of it on the way home.  I will likely be finished it by Saturday morning.  I think this is pretty pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Good: I got a cheque in the mail from ICBC.  Looks like they tracked down the asshat who hit and runned our car.  I got my deductible refunded to me.  <\/p>\n<p>Also good: mac &#038; cheese.  With sundried tomatoes.  And bacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad: Up until yesterday I was trying to spend quality time on transit with &#8220;Neuromancer,&#8221; a book by William Gibson that I thought Saint Aardvark recommended to me when in fact he recommended &#8220;Virtual Light.&#8221; For good reason, as it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=930\">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":[43,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}