{"id":873,"date":"2005-11-02T14:47:20","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T14:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=873"},"modified":"2005-11-02T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T14:47:20","slug":"knock-the-sucker-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Knock the Sucker Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks ago, I found myself on the way to class a good half hour earlier than I usually am. (Which makes my leave time a good hour before class actually began.)<\/p>\n<p>I was proud of myself and even had a song in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Then I saw <em>it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A one-story aluminum-sided house on the back of a semi being moved down University Drive&#8230;very&#8230;slowly at 9 in the AM.<\/p>\n<p>I chased that song from my heart with several angry words that melted car paint within a 1000 yard radius.<\/p>\n<p>But the house refused to move any faster.  In fact, it went slower. Just to spite me.<\/p>\n<p>I was late, again. And it was a half day.<\/p>\n<p>If your house isn&#8217;t the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/liho\/home\/home.htm\">Lincoln home<\/a> the chances on it being worth moving are slim to none.  If your house IS the Lincoln home, well chances are the <strong>road <\/strong>will be moving around <strong>you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, just knock that sucker down and rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>Or else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks ago, I found myself on the way to class a good half hour earlier than I usually am. (Which makes my leave time a good hour before class actually began.) I was proud of myself and even had a song in my heart. Then I saw it. A one-story aluminum-sided house on the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-too-many-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}