{"id":28,"date":"2009-09-04T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T21:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/?p=28"},"modified":"2009-09-04T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T21:33:19","slug":"28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/2009\/09\/04\/28\/","title":{"rendered":"long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long weekend is upon us and gratefully I attended my one Friday class and went to the nurse to complain about a sore throat, verbally crossing my fingers it wasn&#8217;t some sort of porcine avian somethin&#8217;&#8230; whatever it was, it isn&#8217;t affluenza. I&#8217;ve been so anxious about my authentic passionate &#8220;why I wanna be a teacher&#8221; reflection, I forgot about money for a while. So I hope I can channel my glee that my MidAm bill was only $88 into any statement I have to write about my impending teacherhood.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Cruise is showing Oprah how to cook. Bacon? Oprah weighs more than me. She could hire people to lift her feet for her to exercise. And she&#8217;s cooking bacon. Oprah needs to pick tomatoes for a few weeks and walk to college from her house for a few weeks. She&#8217;d lose weight too.<\/p>\n<p>My Great Aunt Jeanne told my momma, &#8220;that&#8217;s a big girl&#8221; the other day when I was walking down the hall. Great Aunt Jeanne loves me but she&#8217;s got Alzheimers now, so there&#8217;s no filter. Admittedly I&#8217;m bigger than her daughter, who is a teensy pip-squeak. Or, as my boys would say, she&#8217;s puny.<\/p>\n<p>My boys are home this weekend, I have loads to study, and life seems pretty good in spite of my sore throat fatigue general malaise and ibuprofin popping habit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/qIiyJwvMSKxTFsrfgonGPw?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_-BVUNrcDZVU\/Sh7XIwKQEwI\/AAAAAAAAA4k\/Gp5HBE1X0hI\/s400\/makeup%20148.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long weekend is upon us and gratefully I attended my one Friday class and went to the nurse to complain about a sore throat, verbally crossing my fingers it wasn&#8217;t some sort of porcine avian somethin&#8217;&#8230; whatever it was, it isn&#8217;t affluenza. I&#8217;ve been so anxious about my authentic passionate &#8220;why I wanna be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[62,64,60,48,63,61],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craptastic","tag-family","tag-fatigue","tag-illness","tag-life","tag-malaise","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/rll003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}