{"id":433,"date":"2003-11-18T16:41:41","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T23:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2012-05-07T20:13:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T03:13:04","slug":"i-drather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/11\/i-drather\/","title":{"rendered":"I Drather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is getting dark, and I am still at work.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up this morning to the sound of my cell phone ringing in the wee morning. Someone in a different time zone needed my help. I sprang out of bed to answer it, heading out of the bedroom and into more cell-friendly areas of the house.<\/p>\n<p>But I immediately hit my head on the door.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know I&#8217;d closed it.<\/p>\n<p>And the man in Uraguay is telling me that he can&#8217;t make a connection because no one is there, and I am trying to ask him how he knows that no one is there if he hasn&#8217;t made the connection.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t seem to figure out how to open the door. Is it locked? I lock and unlock it several times before I realize that I can&#8217;t open it because I&#8217;m leaning against it.<\/p>\n<p>But at that point, the cell reception fades entirely and the phone connection is lost.<\/p>\n<p>I sit down on the couch and call the other person whose time zone it is and tell him what he needs to do to take care of Uruguay&#8217;s problem. Problem solved.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m awake. And my head hurts a little. Might as well get over to the office.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to find a better way to make a living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is getting dark, and I am still at work. I woke up this morning to the sound of my cell phone ringing in the wee morning. Someone in a different time zone needed my help. I sprang out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/11\/i-drather\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworthy","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}