{"id":10,"date":"2013-11-28T04:47:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T04:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2013-11-28T05:11:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:11:03","slug":"moving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/28\/moving-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay. I&#8217;ve had four views since publishing my first missive, which I consider pretty damn good (the views, not the missive, although that wasn&#8217;t bad, either). I&#8217;m hoping for five by the time Christmas arrives.<br \/>\nA few folks contacted me and said that my Thanksgiving post was rather crude. I informed them that It was nothing more than irreverent satire, which can at times be crude, and they received no apologies. Hey, I&#8217;m just another internet blogger with four viewers spouting off on everyday matters. My wife wanted to know who Becky is, and so I pulled down my pants, bent over, and showed her. Boom! Okay, that didn&#8217;t happen, because I seriously don&#8217;t have hemorrhoids. And there was\/is no Becky. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever dated a Becky, let alone had a Becky blow me. Her loss.<br \/>\nSo we just watched Charlie Brown&#8217;s Thanksgiving, and why did the young Mr. Brown have to give Franklin, the gratuitous black kid, a hip and groovy handshake? For that matter why did Franklin get the crappy chair at the dinner table? And what&#8217;s up with Woodstock giggling his ass off while eating another bird with Snoopy at the dinner table?<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to write here once or twice a week, possibly more, with hopes of avoiding politics. Honestly, there are enough folks out there talking about the sad state of our union. I&#8217;ll leave that to the so-called experts (blowhards).<br \/>\nCurrently, I&#8217;m reading Bad Monkey, by Carl Hiaasen. It&#8217;s a rather funny novel about a cop demoted to food inspector in the Florida Keys. Every time I go into Barnes and Nobles I grab a cup of coffee and read a chapter, and so I&#8217;m not that far along. Chapter eight, I think. Bookmarks don&#8217;t work so well in this scenario. (I was going to use the word scheme, but that denotes an air of underhandedness.) Hey, at least I&#8217;m buying coffee. Beside, it&#8217;s a good book, so I&#8217;m the one getting cheated here. Regardless, I set a goal and I intend to keep it. I&#8217;ll let you know when I&#8217;m done.<br \/>\nOn the television front I&#8217;m on season eight of Dexter, which is about two seasons too many. I hate this weepy Debra Morgan. But then again, I didn&#8217;t like her much in season one, when she was awkward and insecure. And then she found some confidence, took her top off, and became hot. Now, not so much, and I&#8217;m looking forward to it being over. \u00a0(Unless she starts taking her top off again!)<br \/>\nTomorrow we bake a Turkey, and then we&#8217;re going to put together a little Holiday video for the family. We&#8217;ll post it on Youtube. Should be fun.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all for now.<br \/>\nGoodnight my four viewers (I wonder if that&#8217;s four separate viewers or if someone has read it four times).<br \/>\nHo-to-the-hum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay. I&#8217;ve had four views since publishing my first missive, which I consider pretty damn good (the views, not the missive, although that wasn&#8217;t bad, either). I&#8217;m hoping for five by the time Christmas arrives. A few folks contacted me and said that my Thanksgiving post was rather crude. I informed them that It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/28\/moving-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moving up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesmdupont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}