{"id":535,"date":"2004-04-08T18:19:18","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=535"},"modified":"2004-04-08T18:19:18","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T18:19:18","slug":"24-hrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"24 hrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it&#8217;s on your plate &#8212; that&#8217;s my philosophy. &#8220;<br \/>\n&#8212; Thornton Wilder\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What was on my plate over the last 24 hours?<\/p>\n<p>The night before, I played the role of barfly at the Tavern with Josh (aka Pentacleus), Gullotta, Blake and Blake&#8217;s girlfriend Valerie.<\/p>\n<p>While in character, I played darts with the above mentioned people and drank way too many mugs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhook.com\/\">Red Hook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why people give sharp pointed objects to drunk freaks is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>We listened to a hilarious comedian but I don&#8217;t remember his name.<\/p>\n<p>During the night, a three way debate broke out between Gullotta, Blake, and I  over who wrote the <i>1812 Overture<\/i>.  I backed the right pony, for once,  by guessing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incwell.com\/Biographies\/Tchaikovsky.html\">Tchaikovsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Warm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoli.com\/main.html\">Stoli<\/a> is the devil&#8217;s drink.<\/p>\n<p>Talked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0812511816\/qid=1081465852\/sr=8-7\/ref=pd_ka_7\/102-4212040-3094561?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">books<\/a> with the beautiful and engaging Valerie.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, I was waved across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/\">Walgreens<\/a> parking lot by a guy who remarkably favored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/people\/bc\/1999\/08\/17\/lee\/\">Stan Lee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, just so you know, re-heated spaghetti is a wonderfully delicious thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it&#8217;s on your plate &#8212; that&#8217;s my philosophy. &#8220; &#8212; Thornton Wilder What was on my plate over the last 24 hours? The night before, I played the role of barfly at the Tavern with Josh (aka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-too-many-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}