{"id":7195,"date":"2014-07-06T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T17:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2014-07-06T12:41:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T17:41:20","slug":"starting-to-hate-sundays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=7195","title":{"rendered":"Starting to Hate Sundays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly Sundays but the days that we do the transfer station run, which usually happens on Sunday.<\/p><p>I&#8217;m starting to hate the transfer station runs because inevitably, Ron has some petty criticism of something I&#8217;ve done.<\/p><p>It starts with a drawn out &#8220;Uhhhh&#8221; followed by a &#8220;helpful&#8221; suggestion that implies a &#8220;better&#8221; or &#8220;more thought out&#8221; idea.<\/p><p>Now, I&#8217;m an old woman and as it turns out, have some physical issues that result in my tiring easily.  Some days it&#8217;s enough to get my sorry self out of bed the morning, brush my teeth, comb my hair, and  get dressed.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, I have gardens to tend to and other responsibilities, including bill-paying and cooking.  I&#8217;ve recently finished a couple of pretty big software projects, too.  <\/p><p>And being homely, I have to invest a lot of energy in interactions with other people, trying to be as careful as I can not to offend.  There are no second chances when you&#8217;re homely.<\/p><p>So, when Ron winds up to point out a problem with something I&#8217;m doing, I don&#8217;t have the energy, either physical or psychic, to deal graciously with it.<\/p><p>If only he would learn to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly Sundays but the days that we do the transfer station run, which usually happens on Sunday.I&#8217;m starting to hate the transfer station runs because inevitably, Ron has some petty criticism of something I&#8217;ve done.It starts with a drawn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=7195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}