{"id":452,"date":"2009-02-16T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2009-02-16T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T02:42:00","slug":"ten-honest-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Ten Honest Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/04407989777350912262\">Ashley<\/a> @ <a href=\"http:\/\/mamafrexy.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/awards-part-2.html\">This Mama is Fr-exy<\/a> tagged me for this award:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SZe2k4Ola1I\/AAAAAAAAAM4\/elzZzh6Djdg\/s1600-h\/Honest_Scrap.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SZe2k4Ola1I\/AAAAAAAAAM4\/elzZzh6Djdg\/s320\/Honest_Scrap.jpg\" vi=\"true\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But of course it has rules and restictions for otherwise we will\u00c2\u00a0throw &#8220;the masses on the path of anarchy.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 <em>(Can you tell me where the quote is from? Answer is at end.)<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0Ashley\u00c2\u00a0passed on\u00c2\u00a0the following set of rules:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Choose blogs that you find awesome in content or design<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Put on your blog with a link and let them know you awarded them<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>List at least 10 honest things about yourself<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So first the 10 honest things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was a very small and premature baby.<\/li>\n<li>I wear size 16 shoes. <em>(I think they over cooked me in the incubator!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I am 6&#8217;5&#8243; and 300+ lbs. <em>(See, I told you they overcooked me!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>L and I have been married for more than 33 years.<\/li>\n<li>L and I have one son, known as the Son or the son herein who is 18 years old.<\/li>\n<li>L and I have known each other for\u00c2\u00a0almost 40 years. <em>(Read part of the story <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/theartofpanic.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/memorable-blind-date-sort-of.html\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I have clear memories back to before one year of age. Memories that predate my abilities to express things verbally.<\/li>\n<li>I have a quasi-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Photographic_memory\">eidetic memory<\/a>. If I have read a book in the last few years, I can re-read one or two\u00c2\u00a0pages and remember the whole volume. <em>(That means I usually have to wait 5 or more years before I can re-read a book with much pleasure.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I had my first poetry published in Junior High School. <em>(Not as impressive as it sounds. Someday I may have to\u00c2\u00a0put the beasties\u00c2\u00a0on here. Then you&#8217;ll know why it isn&#8217;t impressive.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>My birthday is this Tuesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now for the blogs I award:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paula @ <a href=\"http:\/\/insertmyblognamehere.blogspot.com\/\">INSERT MY BLOG NAME HERE<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lee @ <a href=\"http:\/\/coddledegg.blogspot.com\/\">A Curate&#8217;s Egg<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<em>(Especially since he dislikes awards. {*grin*})<\/em><\/li>\n<li>CP @ <a href=\"http:\/\/certifiableprincess.blogspot.com\/\">An Oxymoron Is Not An Idiot With Zits<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Peter @ <a href=\"http:\/\/bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com\/\">Bayou Renaissance Man<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<em>(Especially for the &#8220;Doofus of the Day&#8221; series)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Carrie @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopscreamingimdriving.com\/\">Stop Screaming I&#8217;m Driving<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rachel @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momirl.com\/\">Mom In Real Life Illustrated<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span>The quote is from &#8220;The Prelude to Bolshevism&#8221; by A. F. Kerensky. (He was Prime Minister of Russia and the Commander in Chief of the Russian Army before the revolution.) I thought it went well with the Arm and Hammer on the Award.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley @ This Mama is Fr-exy tagged me for this award: But of course it has rules and restictions for otherwise we will\u00c2\u00a0throw &#8220;the masses on the path of anarchy.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 (Can you tell me where the quote is from? Answer is at end.)\u00c2\u00a0Ashley\u00c2\u00a0passed on\u00c2\u00a0the following set of rules: Choose blogs that you find awesome in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ten Honest Things<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[444,445],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}