What is it with the profusion of Italian greetings on LiveJournal of late? I swear I\u2019ve had half of my friends end their respective entries with \u201cciao\u201d recently. Odd. Why not say \u201carrivederci?\u201d It\u2019s more of a mouthful, but it sounds more authentic. But I guess we\u2019re reading the words, and not really speaking them, aren\u2019t we? Never mind\u2026<\/p>\n
Going to bed at midnight or a little later is really turning into a bad habit. I really need to nip this in the bud before it carries on much longer and I can\u2019t fall asleep early anymore. Tonight won\u2019t be the night to break the habit, though. Aaron and Craig are arriving around 8 or 9. Well, maybe it will be. I\u2019ll be exhausted, and they\u2019ll be coming off an 8-hour car drive, so perhaps we\u2019ll all collectively conk out around midnight. We shall see.<\/p>\n
What do you love about the ocean?<\/p>\n
I do too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is it with the profusion of Italian greetings on LiveJournal of late? I swear I\u2019ve had half of my friends end their respective entries with \u201cciao\u201d recently. Odd. Why not say \u201carrivederci?\u201d It\u2019s more of a mouthful, but it sounds more authentic. But I guess we\u2019re reading the words, and not really speaking them, […]<\/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\/228"}],"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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}