{"id":2657,"date":"2011-05-23T08:14:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T13:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2011-05-23T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T13:14:36","slug":"out-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=2657","title":{"rendered":"Out of Sorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m irritated with everyone and everything this morning.<\/p><p>Even my poor husband, who is about as nice a person as you&#8217;d ever meet, got on my nerves by not asking if I had a carpenter&#8217;s square after getting grouchy because he couldn&#8217;t find his.  This annoyed the heck out of me because I interpreted his failing to do so as a reflection on my competence, thus ascribing to me the worst qualities of the string of spoiled, selfish, poor-little-rich girls he&#8217;s lived with in the past.<\/p><p>Yesterday, I tried and failed, not only once but twice, to fit so-called &#8220;universal&#8221; burner grids to the Weber.<\/p><p>I drove the truck too fast over a vicious speed bump and caused both of us to wake up with stiff necks.<\/p><p>Ron assured me that he&#8217;d be able to replace a rusting light fixture with one we bought yesterday at a yard sale, but he ran into some tool-related problems &#8211; again.<\/p><p>Fluffles continues to wear me out with his fussiness over food.<\/p><p>There&#8217;s more gardening to be done and I&#8217;M TIRED.<\/p><p>Except for the fact that Ron&#8217;s things are all over the basement, we are in excellent shape.  We have lots of good food and a well-equipped kitchen to cook it in, two working vehicles, and pretty surroundings, including the addition of a nice bedroom lamp and two handsome gold pillow covers purchased for pennies at said yard sale.<\/p><p>In other words, I have no good reason to be so ill-tempered right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m irritated with everyone and everything this morning.Even my poor husband, who is about as nice a person as you&#8217;d ever meet, got on my nerves by not asking if I had a carpenter&#8217;s square after getting grouchy because he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=2657\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}