{"id":6720,"date":"2010-02-17T09:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2010-02-17T09:52:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:52:53","slug":"i-second-that-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=6720","title":{"rendered":"I second that emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, was the biggest spectacle<\/a> on the planet right here in our fair city – Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras – and ain’t we got fun – WHO DAT? It was Tin’s first Mardi Gras and our first as a family and I know next year, Tin is not got to fit in a pack (big resounding sigh). I walked from 9AM till 3PM with 20 pounds strapped on my chest and wondered why when we got home I took a nap like I was in a coma. But this morning, on lean Wednesday – as the rest of the town runs to a priest to get some ashes on their forehead, I’m starting lent to get rid of the 16 pounds that have accreted around my middle, making it more than a spare tire but an entire SUV that I have been huffing and puffing and carrying around.<\/p>\n

So begins the spare 40 to end the spare tire – no alcohol, no sweets, and say hello to your jeans mama!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, was the biggest spectacle on the planet right here in our fair city – Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras – and ain’t we got fun – WHO DAT? It was Tin’s first Mardi Gras and our first as a family and I know next year, Tin is not got to fit in a pack (big resounding sigh). I walked from 9AM till 3PM with 20 pounds strapped on my chest and wondered why when… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1Ko","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6723,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}