{"id":2318,"date":"2017-12-23T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T04:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2017-12-24T00:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T05:24:35","slug":"the-snow-turned-into-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"the snow turned into rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Current favorite song: EBTG, &#8220;Tender Blue.&#8221;  The intro tips its hat to the Flamingos&#8217; version of &#8220;I Only Have Eyes for You.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a nice touch.<\/li>\n<li>As a kid, I observed the adults around me and remember feeling there was a great gulf between childhood and adulthood, and not understanding how exactly one would get <em>there<\/em> from <em>here<\/em>.  Grown-ups were fundamentally different people than kids in some qualitative way.  Looking back on it now, it&#8217;s been one long continuous process of learning little things a few at a time.  There was no abrupt switch or crossover point, and we remain the same people we&#8217;ve always been.<\/li>\n<li>Washed both cars today, the last day I&#8217;d have been able to do it before the weather gets significantly colder (tomorrow&#8217;s high is only 49\u00b0, in contrast to 67\u00b0 today).  Used the rubbing compound to get a bit of parking lot rash out of the Mazda&#8217;s bodywork.  And although I&#8217;ve resigned myself to the fact that it&#8217;s a losing battle trying to keep the cats off the BMW in the garage, I&#8217;m going to try&#8212;I put up the hood and trunklid as soon as I moved it inside.  Need to put the smoke machine on it tomorrow so I can see if there&#8217;s anything I need to order next week before the next&#8212;and hopefully last&#8212;work trip back to NC next weekend.<\/li>\n<li>Working my way through <em>Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/em> (the original series) at the moment.  Far too adult to share with P, but it&#8217;s interesting to me.  Not as &#8220;grounded&#8221; as <em>Cowboy Bebop<\/em>, but thought-provoking in different ways.  Very syncretistic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current favorite song: EBTG, &#8220;Tender Blue.&#8221; The intro tips its hat to the Flamingos&#8217; version of &#8220;I Only Have Eyes for You.&#8221; It&#8217;s a nice touch. As a kid, I observed the adults around me and remember feeling there was a great gulf between childhood and adulthood, and not understanding how exactly one would get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/2318"}],"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=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}