{"id":40991,"date":"2014-01-10T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40991"},"modified":"2014-01-09T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:01:25","slug":"now-be-thankful-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40991","title":{"rendered":"Now Be Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know that moment when the house is totally silent?\u00a0 The TV is off, the refrigerator stops humming, the kids are asleep and the furnace fan isn\u2019t blowing?\u00a0 Haven\u2019t had that for the last day or two.\u00a0 Furnace fan just keeps blowing.\u00a0 And that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Xcel Energy, for keeping the natural gas and electricity flowing so my house is warm.\u00a0 Thank you, oil field workers, pipeline maintenance engineers, electricity linemen . . . all the burly men who work in unimaginably bad conditions to provide me with the luxury of sitting in my recliner reading Sci Fi on the Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: You know that moment when the house is totally silent?\u00a0 The TV is off, the refrigerator stops humming, the kids are asleep and the furnace fan isn\u2019t blowing?\u00a0 Haven\u2019t had that for the last day or two.\u00a0 Furnace fan just keeps blowing.\u00a0 And that\u2019s a good thing. Thank you, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40991","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=40991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41030,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40991\/revisions\/41030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}