{"id":72,"date":"1999-11-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/11\/17\/misfortune\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:33:25","slug":"misfortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/11\/17\/misfortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Misfortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In my cold-induced delerium last week<\/strong> I failed to notice that Friday was not the 13th, but actually the 12th, so there is no superstitious reason for my counter resetting. Now I just know I lost count after all that traffic. Pain in the butt.<\/p>\n<p>But not a pain as big as the one in my throat. Thanks to the effects of a week-long bout of a runny nose, my tonsils have swollen to impossible new dimensions. It feels like I\u2019m choking on a pair of eggs. At least they don&#8217;t seem to actually be infected. I can&#8217;t wait for the day when I have the time to rip these babies the hell out!<\/p>\n<p>I drive again tomorrow. Clear the streets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my cold-induced delerium last week I failed to notice that Friday was not the 13th, but actually the 12th, so there is no superstitious reason for my counter resetting. Now I just know I lost count after all that traffic. Pain in the butt. But not a pain as big as the one in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/11\/17\/misfortune\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Misfortune&#8221;<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69717,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/69717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}