{"id":258,"date":"2008-08-29T20:03:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T01:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2008-08-30T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T18:03:30","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=258","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\u00a0Red Sox\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Looking good lately, a few bad games notwithstanding. Their chances of taking the AL East are slim, but I&#8217;m more confident now that they&#8217;ll get the wildcard spot and then shine in post-season as they are able to do.<\/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\u00a0Hurricane Gustav\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0New Orleans in the crossshairs again.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noaawatch.gov\/2008\/gustav.php\" title=\"NOAA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/gustav.gif\" alt=\"Storm Track\" height=\"430\" style=\"width: 537px; height: 430px\" title=\"Storm Track\" \/><\/a><\/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\u00a0Learning to hunt\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Little guy gets a lesson in hunting.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/kitties\/hunting.JPG\" title=\"Hunting lesson\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/kitties\/hunting.JPG\" alt=\"Hunting lesson\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/kitties\/hunting2.JPG\" title=\"Better luck next time.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/kitties\/hunting2.JPG\" alt=\"Better luck next time.\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><\/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\u00a0John McCain\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; I try to stay away from politics here, but his choice as VP candidate is so ridiculous that it&#8217;s terrifying.\u00c2\u00a0&#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0Red Sox\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Looking good lately, a few bad games notwithstanding. Their chances of taking the AL East are slim, but I&#8217;m more confident now that they&#8217;ll get the wildcard spot and then shine in post-season as they are able to do. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Hurricane Gustav\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0New Orleans in the crossshairs again. \u00c2\u00a0Learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backyard-animals","category-photography","category-sports","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}