{"id":1896,"date":"2008-03-20T01:10:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T08:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/even-my-dreams-are-boring\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T01:10:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T08:10:05","slug":"even-my-dreams-are-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/even-my-dreams-are-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Even my dreams are boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few nights, rather than writing or doing anything at all (gathering receipts for my medical &#8220;flex spending&#8221; account comes to mind), I&#8217;ve promptly post-dinner dozed on the couch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably the headache I&#8217;ve had all day, or maybe the fresh, clean, springtime pollen that&#8217;s inflating my histamine count and sinus tissue.  I am just damn sluggish.  Even getting up to go to bed now, because I&#8217;d have to rise from the couch, feels like work.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.  Perhaps tomorrow I will have energy.  Perhaps tomorrow, I can hypochondriacally search out information on pacemaker devices.  I&#8217;m not allowing myself to worry that we&#8217;ll soon have a part-cyborg in the family, a la Dick Cheney.  I hope he doesn&#8217;t decide to invade another country post-operatively.  Although I did recommend drinking the blood of Iraqi children afterwards, because clearly there&#8217;s some black magic that keeps the VP&#8217;s fragile heart ticking and humming along.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, pacemakers and heart surgery are scary.  But, with technology, possibly powered by M.&#8217;s company, there are ample reasons for hope.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/energy\" rel=\"tag\">energy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/life\" rel=\"tag\">life<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/pacemakers\" rel=\"tag\">pacemakers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/music\" rel=\"tag\">music<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/even-my-dreams-are-boring\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few nights, rather than writing or doing anything at all (gathering receipts for my medical &#8220;flex spending&#8221; account comes to mind), I&#8217;ve promptly post-dinner dozed on the couch. It&#8217;s probably the headache I&#8217;ve had all day, or maybe the fresh, clean, springtime pollen that&#8217;s inflating my histamine count and sinus tissue. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wYr-uA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}