{"id":8413,"date":"2017-07-05T06:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2017\/07\/05\/just-noticed\/"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:41:30","slug":"just-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2017\/07\/05\/just-noticed\/","title":{"rendered":"Just noticed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been weeks since I paid any attention to the news. I think I&#8217;m better off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8420\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sddefault-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sddefault-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sddefault-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sddefault.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I&#8217;m completely disconnected from the annoyances, and irritations that flood into our homes via the media. I haven&#8217;t even read a newspaper online.<\/p>\n<p>I have been dealing with my own drama, and I suppose that&#8217;s the good news and bad news. \u00a0If I&#8217;d been paying attention to the antics of the politicians, I&#8217;d have been really, really, cross. As it was, the stresses of my life were more than sufficient to keep me occupied.<\/p>\n<p>So now I find myself wondering what&#8217;s been going on, and simultaneously I&#8217;m afraid to look.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a strange comfort knowing that if the end is going to happen, it will be a complete surprise to me!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, this simply proves that old adage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Ignorance is Bliss<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The question now for me is, do I choose to remain in <i>Bliss?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been weeks since I paid any attention to the news. I think I&#8217;m better off. I&#8217;m completely disconnected from the annoyances, and irritations that flood into our homes via the media. I haven&#8217;t even read a newspaper online. I have been dealing with my own drama, and I suppose that&#8217;s the good news and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2017\/07\/05\/just-noticed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just noticed&#8230;&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8421,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}