{"id":1290,"date":"2009-03-01T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2009-03-01T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T03:34:00","slug":"life-flies-by-in-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"life flies by in seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>and I would never try to make you be<br \/> anything you didn&#8217;t really want to be<br \/><\/em><br \/>The bedroom is a little lighter tonight.&nbsp; The streetlights reflect off the snow outside and give the closed blinds a gentle glow.&nbsp; The warmth of the blankets and pillows is always welcome, but tonight the soft light at the windows reminds me of the contrast with the cold and makes the present environment that much more welcome.&nbsp; The kids will have fun tomorrow; that much we know&#8211;a quick peek through the blinds by the bed confirms at least a few inches.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been&#8230;a weekend.&nbsp; My parents visited yesterday and my mom and Diane attended a baby shower for my sister-in-law.&nbsp; Diane was in charge of the games and a few other things and by all accounts it went very well.&nbsp; They brought home some of the hors d&#8217;oeuvres too&#8211;those little mozzarella balls bathed in olive oil really are delicious.&nbsp; I think we all got a little case of cabin fever; I&nbsp;know I&nbsp;did on account of the cold and rain outside all weekend.&nbsp; I&#8217;m ready for spring and summer to roll around.&nbsp; This plunge back into the snow and cold is a couple of months late and particularly cruel given that, technically, it&#8217;s only three more weeks until spring.&nbsp; Not only that, but the cloud cover the past few days means that I haven&#8217;t been able to deploy the telescope for a comet sighting, and by the time all of this nonsense is over chances are it will be gone, or too faint to see even with the &#8216;scope.&nbsp; Oh well.&nbsp; I need to stay on top of celestial events more anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and I would never try to make you be anything you didn&#8217;t really want to beThe bedroom is a little lighter tonight.&nbsp; The streetlights reflect off the snow outside and give the closed blinds a gentle glow.&nbsp; The warmth of the blankets and pillows is always welcome, but tonight the soft light at the windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}