{"id":12,"date":"2012-02-14T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2012-02-14T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:24:00","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"And Now For Something Completely Different …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Including apologies to Monty Python. Of course it isn’t true. It is really more of the same.<\/p>\n

I still have not received the mysterious envelope of the last posting. Maybe the anti-terrorists at the USPS have decided to keep it for their hall of shame. Maybe they just cannot find me now that I am on the lam. {*grin*} (That is what they get for calling and warning me.)<\/i><\/p>\n

Then there is the weather. After a dry and warm January with many days in the 50s, February has been cold and snowy with many a snow storm and all sorts of cold. But at least today it started a fast melt. This is the view on the back patio as the snow begins to melt and re-freeze.<\/p>\n

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Shoveling\u00c2\u00a0the snow from last nights flurries sounded like I was working in a waterfall as the snow started melting off the roof. \u00c2\u00a0It was kind of neat.<\/p>\n

That brings us to Valentine’s Day tomorrow. L and I have never been real big celebrants of the holiday. Usually just a card with the occasional meal out or flowers or … Given that this will be the 40th Valentine’s Day we have celebrated as a couple, we’ll undoubtedly do the same old things.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons we don’t get too excited about February 14th is that my birthday is on the 17th and L’s is 5 days later. So we tend to get excited later in the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Including apologies to Monty Python. Of course it isn’t true. It is really more of the same. I still have not received the mysterious envelope of the last posting. Maybe the anti-terrorists at the USPS have decided to keep it for their hall of shame. Maybe they just cannot find me now that I am … Continue reading And Now For Something Completely Different …<\/span> →<\/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":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}