{"id":242,"date":"2008-07-04T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-07-04T22:15:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T03:15:12","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=242","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\u00a0Independence Day &#8211; Nice having it on a Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"15\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/meh.gif\" alt=\"Meh\" height=\"15\" style=\"width: 15px; height: 15px\" title=\"Meh\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Red Sox -\u00c2\u00a0They&#8217;ve taken two in a row against the Yankmees in the Bronx, so that&#8217;s a good sign, but their\u00c2\u00a05 game losing streak earlier this week changed the whole AL East race for the worse. They&#8217;re going to have to stay sharp\u00c2\u00a0just to keep pace with TB.\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\u00c2\u00a0Doldrums -\u00c2\u00a0We&#8217;ve been back from our vacation for almost two weeks now\u00c2\u00a0and I can&#8217;t seem to find the energy to get some pictures posted or even write about it.<\/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\u00a0Alan Furst\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; His latest book is excellent. Review to follow (Doldrums notwithstanding).<\/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 Coles County Fireworks Display -\u00c2\u00a0Lamest show ever.\u00c2\u00a0But at least it was mercifully short.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0Independence Day &#8211; Nice having it on a Friday. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Red Sox -\u00c2\u00a0They&#8217;ve taken two in a row against the Yankmees in the Bronx, so that&#8217;s a good sign, but their\u00c2\u00a05 game losing streak earlier this week changed the whole AL East race for the worse. They&#8217;re going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-rant","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}