{"id":1243,"date":"2006-12-11T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:37:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:37:56","slug":"in-the-thick-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"In the thick of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/PC100134.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/PC100134-225x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Emerging briefly from my sinus-infection-induced-stupor to mention that you might want to reconsider purchasing a pre-lit Xmas tree because someday you may have to re-string all those lights.  My poor dear patient husband has been at it all day.  Innocently I asked what we could do to prevent his having to ever do this again.  He said he&#8217;d take it outside and light it on fire and dance around it before he&#8217;d do it again.  Well!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Back to the couch and my blankie and a full box of tissues.  The house is beginning to look glittery.  Everything is sort of glittery; I guess because my one eye won&#8217;t stop running.  Why is it that when I get a cold it&#8217;s all on one side of my head?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging briefly from my sinus-infection-induced-stupor to mention that you might want to reconsider purchasing a pre-lit Xmas tree because someday you may have to re-string all those lights. My poor dear patient husband has been at it all day. Innocently I asked what we could do to prevent his having to ever do this again. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the thick of it<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}