{"id":392,"date":"2010-03-26T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2012-03-13T22:10:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:10:43","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Alma Driscoll\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Patriot Ledger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/lifestyle\/50_plus\/x126578849\/Legendary-Weymouth-teacher-Alma-Driscoll-turns-100\" target=\"_blank\">My 9th grade English teacher turned 100 this week.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0She was simply the best teacher I ever had. I can attribute my grammar and writing skills directly to her supreme skill as an educator. She was 63 when she was presiding over my English class. That was 37 years ago. Amazing. Hats off to you, Mrs. Driscoll.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.celticcrossroads.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic Crossroads<\/a> &#8211; We saw this show last night at EIU&#8217;s new arts center. Astoundingly talented performers. Very enjoyable show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Petty Politics &#8211; It&#8217;s a sin that the bozos in Washington get paid at all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Common Sense\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Finally the legislature here has seen the light, so to speak, and is allowing conservative window tinting on the driver and passenger windows. Now I can get my X5 front windows done so they all match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0Alma Driscoll\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0My 9th grade English teacher turned 100 this week.\u00c2\u00a0She was simply the best teacher I ever had. I can attribute my grammar and writing skills directly to her supreme skill as an educator. She was 63 when she was presiding over my English class. That was 37 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}