{"id":9469,"date":"2020-03-17T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T04:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:44:33","slug":"happy-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/17\/happy-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course depending on where you are you might not have had the usual party.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, there was more than enough beer and booze, a great meal and a nice small crowd.<\/p>\n<p>But with bars &amp; restaurants being closed it&rsquo;s obvious that the celebration wasn&rsquo;t quite to the extent that it normally is.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta admit that I&rsquo;ve not been a huge St Patricks&rsquo; day celebrator but it was nice to drink and laugh with nice people.<\/p>\n<p>Today was kind of a day of little projects, Naturally the smallest project turned into one of those situations where pulling the thread was problematic. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s the nature of &ldquo;small,&rdquo; &ldquo;simple&rdquo; projects for them to a pain in the ass.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll finish up those projects tomorrow, then head back on schedule, home. What awaits me there may be more chaotic that when I left. but the chaos is now nationwide. There&rsquo;s no escape unless I find that mythical alien ship to &ldquo;jack&rdquo; and get offworld.<\/p>\n<p>Since that&rsquo;s not likely to happen, home to the mountain it is. It&rsquo;s going to be a shock to my system, here it&rsquo;s been in the low light 70s and wonderfully comfortable. Home has been in the 30&rsquo;s so I&rsquo;m going to be freezing, <strong><em>again<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a long flight but perhaps this time it will be mostly empty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;d thought about extending here but two factors prevent me from doing that. 1) is that I&rsquo;m starting to be slightly concerned about not being able to get back. 2) I&rsquo;m worried about contaminating my elderly relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Brooks and his son made a sortof cute PSA about it and they have a point.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve got to plan to visit again soon. Perhaps when the Coronavirus is on the wane.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course depending on where you are you might not have had the usual party. Thankfully, there was more than enough beer and booze, a great meal and a nice small crowd. But with bars &amp; restaurants being closed it&rsquo;s obvious that the celebration wasn&rsquo;t quite to the extent that it normally is. Gotta admit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/17\/happy-st-patricks-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy St Patrick&#8217;s Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","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=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9470,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions\/9470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}