{"id":443,"date":"2010-08-13T23:23:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2010-08-13T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T04:24:17","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Roku HD Player &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Roku-N1100-HD-Player\/dp\/B001PIBE8I\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=electronics&amp;qid=1281758237&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">This thing is great<\/a>. It streams Netflix movies and MLB.TV, so now I can watch the Sox on the big screen. Bit of a Thumbs Down to Amazon.com, though. A day or two after I ordered mine, they dropped the price $20. They had to know the price was going to drop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Red Sox \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Papelbon blew yet another game Thursday afternoon, this time a 5-3 lead against the Blue Jays. Tonight they blew an 8-2 lead and ended up losing against the Rangers. Second walk-off loss in two days. Plus they burned through the entire bullpen tonight, although Wakefield only threw one pitch. That one went into the stands for the game winner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Writer&#8217;s Block \u00e2\u20ac\u201c All I need to do to finish my degree program is to  write this final paper. Yet I&#8217;m having the hardest time devoting energy  to it. I&#8217;m sick of school.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Here we go again \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0 Another batch of kittens have found their way into our home. We need to find other homes for these guys.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Yawn\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/kitties\/kitten04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/kitties\/kitten04.jpg\" alt=\"Yawn\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hello\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/kitties\/kitten08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/kitties\/kitten08.jpg\" alt=\"Hello\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. Roku HD Player &#8211; This thing is great. It streams Netflix movies and MLB.TV, so now I can watch the Sox on the big screen. Bit of a Thumbs Down to Amazon.com, though. A day or two after I ordered mine, they dropped the price $20. They had 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":[6,5,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-gadgets","category-school","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}