{"id":1793,"date":"2007-12-17T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2007-12-17T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T23:04:26","slug":"someday-ill-laugh-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Someday I&#8217;ll Laugh About This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I took a final walk around the house, getting ready for the appraisal.\u00a0 Could be neater, but nothing <em>drastically <\/em>wrong (other than the sick kids spotted in their bedrooms, roiling with delirium from the same wretched soul-scarring crud I had last week).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All was, within my normal tolerances, fairly well.<\/p>\n<p>The appraiser came.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>20-minute walkaround.\u00a0 A few questions.\u00a0 No biggie.\u00a0 Much pre-appraisal stress dissipates.<\/p>\n<p>I bid him adieu (we pass on the handshake, given all the sick kids).<\/p>\n<p>I walk upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>And notice that at some time between the walkaround\u00a0and 25 minutes hence,\u00a0the dog had &#8211; for the first time in years &#8211; left a &#8220;present&#8221; at the foot of my bed.<\/p>\n<p>The over\/under on &#8220;before&#8221; or &#8220;after&#8221; the appraiser walked through is about even.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 I&#8217;m laughing about it now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I mean, what else am I gonna do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I took a final walk around the house, getting ready for the appraisal.\u00a0 Could be neater, but nothing drastically wrong (other than the sick kids spotted in their bedrooms, roiling with delirium from the same wretched soul-scarring crud I had last week).\u00a0 All was, within my normal tolerances, fairly well. The appraiser came.\u00a0 20-minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}