{"id":4088,"date":"2016-06-02T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2016-06-02T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:06:59","slug":"thursday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2016\/06\/thursday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone asked me what my job was yesterday.<\/p>\n

I said I help import consumer electronics and musical instruments from China.<\/p>\n

“That’s cool!”<\/p>\n

Hm. I guess it is.<\/p>\n

I haven’t written about my jobby job directly on this blog in a long time. I felt gagged for a long time, and then before that a little wary of being indiscreet.<\/p>\n

But. This part of my job is not indiscreet.<\/p>\n

When I am working with a team in China, they are on a different time zone, and a different day.<\/p>\n

Thursday, therefore, is special.<\/p>\n

I think often of the Truman Capote, and his words in Breakfast at Tiffany’s<\/p>\n

Holly Golightly: Thursday! It can\u2019t be! It\u2019s too gruesome!<\/p>\n

Thursday in California is the last workday in china. I must make sure to get whatever communications that are necessary to the China team on Thursday, because on Friday it will be Saturday in China.<\/p>\n

Thursday has extra franticness…and Friday is a little calmer.<\/p>\n

Monday is 2 days worth of emails.<\/p>\n

That’s the day today. A little gruesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone asked me what my job was yesterday. I said I help import consumer electronics and musical instruments from China. “That’s cool!” Hm. I guess it is. I haven’t written about my jobby job directly on this blog in a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}