{"id":3239,"date":"2015-09-17T03:07:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T03:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2015-09-17T03:07:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T03:07:01","slug":"walk-on-the-mild-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/09\/17\/walk-on-the-mild-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk on the Mild Side&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My auto is in the shop getting repaired (fails emissions and leaky heater core) and it needed a tune-up as it is 15 years old with 170,000 miles and still running on the original plugs, so today I hoofed it to the post office which is about two miles there and back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was okay with that from a physical standpoint but the boredom of it was excruciating.\u00a0 I got used to everything going by at 60, and walking is okay when there is something to look at, but what they&#8217;ve done to this neighborhood only depresses me.\u00a0 Lots of ugly apartments where trees used to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nobodies account is scheduled to expire tomorrow so I&#8217;m going to skip the post office trip until Friday when my auto is supposed to be ready.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There seemed to be a lot of allergens in the air, my eyes teared up, my nose started running.\u00a0 Took some allergy medicine when I got back, hadn&#8217;t taken it for a while so wasn&#8217;t used to it, quite sedating, pretty much made for a non-productive afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My auto is in the shop getting repaired (fails emissions and leaky heater core) and it needed a tune-up as it is 15 years old with 170,000 miles and still running on the original plugs, so today I hoofed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/09\/17\/walk-on-the-mild-side\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}