{"id":84,"date":"2002-07-05T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-05T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/test\/2002\/07\/05\/sick-again\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T00:12:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T08:12:56","slug":"sick-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2002\/07\/05\/sick-again\/","title":{"rendered":"sick AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got sick AGAIN! This will teach me never to work in the blazing hot sun on the Fourth of July again. My nose is all stuffed up and I&#8217;m running dangerously low on nice, puffy tissues. <i>::sigh::<\/i> Argh!<\/p>\n<p>But regardless, I had a pretty good time &#8212; I was working the spin wheel and giving out free prizes so I got to see lots of erm&#8230; <i>interesting<\/i> people. There were some station groupies who kept hovering by the booth and staring at us. And they weren&#8217;t even trying to be nonchalant about it. I think news talk groupies are the <i>worst.<\/i> They devote their lives to listening to the station day in and day out and they consider the radio personalities to be their close friends. It&#8217;s really disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>The fireworks at the end of the night though &#8212; wow. They were awesome. There was just something about being in a large crowd staring up at the sky with excitement that made me truly feel like I&#8217;m a part of something. I felt wildly patriotic especially when hearing part of President Bush&#8217;s 9\/11 speech accompanied by music &#8212; &#8220;Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.&#8221; <i>::shudders::<\/i> That alone gives me chills.<\/p>\n<p>Gonna do the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridayfive.org\" target=\"_blank\">Friday Five<\/a>: (on time for once!)<\/p>\n<p><b>Where are you right now?<\/b> I&#8217;m at home in my room &#8212; where I&#8217;ll probably be for the rest of the weekend cause I&#8217;m sick and lazy and right now, reading all the P\/Jo fanfic I can find. \ud83d\ude1b<br \/>\n<b>What have you lost recently?<\/b> Well, when I reformatted my hard drive, I lost all my programs and had to reinstall everything. What a pain. I hope that never happens again.<br \/>\n<b>What was the first CD you ever purchased? Does that embarrass you now?<\/b> You know, I have absolutely no idea &#8212; but I think it was <b>Boyz II Men&#8217;s II<\/b>. I&#8217;m not embarrassed by that CD at all. They&#8217;re like my first &#8220;boy band&#8221; love.<br \/>\n<b>What is your favorite kind of writing pen?<\/b> I love colored gel pens, especially the glittery colors. I&#8217;m such a girly girl. To be exact, they&#8217;re the Pentel gel rollers. I think I own every color.<br \/>\n<b>What is your favorite ice cream flavor?<\/b> I have more than one &#8212; Rocky Road and Pistachio Almond by Baskin Robbins and Strawberry by anybody. Yum. \ud83d\ude1b<br \/>\nI also want to wish my friend <b>Sara<\/b> a very happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day sweetie. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got sick AGAIN! This will teach me never to work in the blazing hot sun on the Fourth of July again. My nose is all stuffed up and I&#8217;m running dangerously low on nice, puffy tissues. ::sigh:: Argh! But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2002\/07\/05\/sick-again\/\">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":[7],"tags":[292,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}