{"id":195,"date":"2007-12-06T23:31:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T06:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/ack\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T23:36:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T06:36:04","slug":"ack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/ack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People wonder why I have occasional Scroogey tendencies around this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just sitting here watching TV as I work.  I think this quote from a commercial I just saw sums it up pretty well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now in stores: Christmas with Boney M!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really?  The world needs this?  The newly remastered version of this no less?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t be the only one that thinks we might have lost our way here.<\/p>\n<p>And not to rag on anybody&#8217;s religion, but I don&#8217;t want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Mark%2016:4-8;&#038;version=31;\">hear any story<\/a> that ends with &#8220;Now where&#8217;d that body get off to?  Gaw-lee, that fella in the cave says it dun-gone to heaven.&#8221;  There&#8217;s less nutty stuff later on, but are you really going to take the word of some guy hanging out alone in a cave where they chuck dead bodies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People wonder why I have occasional Scroogey tendencies around this time of year. I&#8217;m just sitting here watching TV as I work. I think this quote from a commercial I just saw sums it up pretty well: Now in stores: Christmas with Boney M! Really? The world needs this? The newly remastered version of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}