{"id":241,"date":"2008-06-27T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T03:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2008-06-27T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T03:37:14","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Celtics &#8211; Ok, I&#8217;m a bit late on this one. But we were traveling last week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Red Sox -\u00c2\u00a0Looking pretty good lately. I&#8217;m hoping for a sweep of Houston, but I&#8217;ll settle for winning the series.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Gas prices &#8211; I still think we&#8217;re being robbed blind. Time will tell, though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Gas prices\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; The silver lining was the absence of the normal summertime traffic madness.\u00c2\u00a0We encountered no heavy traffic at all in almost 2,000 miles of driving the past two weeks.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Weather &#8211; These heavy rain producing thunderstorms are wreaking havoc with the levees and the farm fields. Food prices are skyrocketing because of the fuel prices. Now this rain is really going to hurt crop production, which will only make the food price crisis worse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Garmin Nuvi 660\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Ok, this is a repeat. But it is a very cool toy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0Celtics &#8211; Ok, I&#8217;m a bit late on this one. But we were traveling last week. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Red Sox -\u00c2\u00a0Looking pretty good lately. I&#8217;m hoping for a sweep of Houston, but I&#8217;ll settle for winning the series. \u00c2\u00a0 Gas prices &#8211; I still think we&#8217;re being robbed blind. Time will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-sports","category-travel","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}