{"id":1708,"date":"2008-12-31T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:30","slug":"hee-hee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"The View from my Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3151150862\/in\/set-72157611505242524\/\" target=_blank title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 align=right src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3075\/3151150862_2d5e9ca571.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a> Yeah, yeah, still with the infection-sweating-fever thing, but THIS is the view I have from my window. This bird is a woodpecker, and I&#8217;d have to have a better view of him to identify him, since he wasn&#8217;t very cooperative. But isn&#8217;t his &#8220;hair&#8221; great?<\/p>\n<p>Books like <i>The Knife of Never Letting Go<\/i>, according to the UK rag (and believe me, it&#8217;s considered inflamnatory Enquirer-like trash by most people with whom I&#8217;ve spoken) <i>The Daily Mail<\/i> are &#8220;so violent they need a health warning&#8221;, according to Dr Rona Tutt. Author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2008\/dec\/30\/patrick-ness-daily-mail\" target= _blank>snipes back,<\/a> in The Guardian, and the fun continues.<\/p>\n<p>The most fun is that I just got this in the mail (THANK YOU Colleen!!) and am going to sit down and read it. Sans health warnings. So there.<\/p>\n<p>Ooh &#8212; <b>THIS JUST IN!!!<\/b> Are you a fan of Alan Gratz and the <i>Something Rotten<\/i> \/ <i>Something Wicked<\/i> Horatio books? Ally Carter (she of <a href=\"http:\/\/readersrants.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/exceptional-gallagher-girls.html\" target= _blank>awesome spy book fame<\/a>) is having a live chat with Mr. Gratz tonight at <b>eight p.m., Eastern time<\/b> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gratzindustries.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/join-me-tonight-for-online-chat.html\" target = _blank>everyone is invited to come along and chat with.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the dirt: Ally Chat<br \/>Tuesday, December 30th<br \/>8:00 eastern\/ 7:00 central<\/p>\n<p>The chat room will be located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chatzy.com\/600505524950\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The password will be ROTTEN, and won&#8217;t work until a quarter &#8217;til &#8212; and after the chat, the password is expired.<\/p>\n<p>The glorious weather continues to taunt me. Robin&#8217;s going <a href=\"http:\/\/robinbrande.com\/life\/the-new-years-eve-ritual\" target= _blank><i>camping<\/i> for New Year&#8217;s<\/a>. I&#8217;m. So. Jealous. Hope everyone else has fun plans. *sob* I&#8217;ll just be here&#8230; coughing&#8230; on my bed of sickness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, yeah, still with the infection-sweating-fever thing, but THIS is the view I have from my window. This bird is a woodpecker, and I&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5407,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}