{"id":456,"date":"2007-07-19T18:05:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T18:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:39:22","slug":"words-and-stuff-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/19\/words-and-stuff-1\/","title":{"rendered":"words and stuff.  1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>jet lag:  <\/strong> also jet\u00c2\u00b7lag (j\u00c4\u2022t&#8217;l\u00c4\u0192g&#8217;)   n.  &#8211;  <em>A temporary disruption of bodily rhythms caused by high-speed travel across several time zones typically in a jet aircraft marked by fatigue, insomnia, and <strong>irritability<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t travel well with others.  Especially when I can scream at them.   I can scream at HIM.  I try not to.  And usually do a pretty good job with the trying.  Until HE comes out with something like this: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why say four words when you can say a thousand?   The mouth on you woman!  Go on.  It&#8217;s your job.  Just get on with it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My <strong>job <\/strong>being the single handed unpacking of 125 kilograms of luggage which mostly belongs to him and which I also single handedly packed.  HIS job, apparently, being driving to and from the airport after 21 hours in transit.  Getting in at 1 a.m.   Or six.  Depending on which clock our bodies atune to.  And in the process somehow managing to forget that I was stuck right there beside him through the whole thing. <\/p>\n<p>HE&#8217;s since apologised in an as-it-should-be grovelling kind of way.  And will be doing laundry, ironing and cooking in penance.  He will also be cleaning the Louboutins that plug holed a garden at a country wedding earlier this month.  He just doesn&#8217;t know it yet. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jet lag: also jet\u00c2\u00b7lag (j\u00c4\u2022t&#8217;l\u00c4\u0192g&#8217;) n. &#8211; A temporary disruption of bodily rhythms caused by high-speed travel across several time zones typically in a jet aircraft marked by fatigue, insomnia, and irritability. I don&#8217;t travel well with others. Especially when I can scream at them. I can scream at HIM. I try not to. And<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}