{"id":3554,"date":"2005-06-01T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2020-09-18T23:25:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T03:25:59","slug":"riding-the-roller-coaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3554","title":{"rendered":"Riding the roller coaster."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I hit a fairly monumental low.  Buddy was repeatedly angry that we kept leaving the house, and so he was destroying things.  The bagel baggie was fine.  I&#8217;ll clean that up.  We expected him to kill the Ozzie doll.  (BTW, while it lived, he loved that toy.  Thanks <lj user=\"ryan_of_eris\">.)  I did not expect him to kill the old man hat.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>Most of my friends are familiar with the old man hat.  I wore it to whatever the hell they called the DEMF last year.  It was my late Grandpa Bean&#8217;s hat.  As far as I know, it&#8217;s the only physical thing that I have left of Grandpa&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>And buddy tore a chunk out of the top.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah.  I got upset.  I&#8217;m still getting over it.  I&#8217;m determined to find a patch and repair it.  Personality, I hope, rather than idiocy.  I can&#8217;t bear to throw the hat out.<\/p>\n<p>In rebounding from the depression, as per usual, I find myself wanting to make better use of my time.  This is also fueled by <lj user=\"benniferus\">&#8216;s job dropping out from under her.  As Grandpa Bean always used to say (and had a bumper sticker or two), Shit Happens.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>The walk between classes was amazing.  I find myself enjoying sunshine, walks outside, and packing my lunch.  I&#8217;m not quite certain who I am anymore, apparently.  Heh.  Sloughing off, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>I should remember to post about our little jaunt to the TWP on Sunday.  Don&#8217;t let me forget. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I hit a fairly monumental low. Buddy was repeatedly angry that we kept leaving the house, and so he was destroying things. The bagel baggie was fine. I&#8217;ll clean that up. We expected him to kill the Ozzie doll. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3554\">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":[34],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-Vk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","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=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6549,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}