{"id":256,"date":"2009-12-08T20:28:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T01:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcrampton.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2021-03-18T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T03:01:09","slug":"thoughts-from-the-day-job-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts From the Day Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy wow, someone gets it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Horoscope for 2 Dec 2009:<\/strong><br \/>\nTAURUS (April 20-May 20): &#8220;Dear Rob: Last night my son and I were star- gazing. When we focused on the constellation Cassiopeia, an owl started hooting. Then a brilliant shooting star zipped by as a huge bat flew right over our heads. Was this a bad omen? Bats are creepy &#8212; associated with vampires. And in Greek mythology Cassiopeia got divine punishment because she bragged that she and her daughter were more beautiful than the sea god&#8217;s daughters. But I don&#8217;t know, maybe this blast of odd events was a good omen. Owls are symbols of wisdom and shooting stars are lucky, right? What do you think? Are we blessed or cursed? -Spooked Taurus.&#8221; Dear Spooked: The question of whether it&#8217;s good or bad luck is irrelevant. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s important: You Tauruses are in a phase when the hidden workings of things will be shown to you &#8212; the mysterious magic that&#8217;s always bubbling below the surface but that is usually not visible.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nFirst revision of the cover for the Todd stories is AWESOME.  I shall nibble on my fingernails during its resizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy wow, someone gets it. Horoscope for 2 Dec 2009: TAURUS (April 20-May 20): &#8220;Dear Rob: Last night my son and I were star- gazing. When we focused on the constellation Cassiopeia, an owl started hooting. Then a brilliant shooting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=256\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[9,38,15],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-carnival","tag-quickie","tag-writery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-48","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7831,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}