{"id":1713,"date":"2009-01-11T16:53:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T22:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2009-01-11T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T22:54:20","slug":"1713","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"*coff*     *wheeze*    *sniffle*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate being sick.\u00a0 It would be nice to have it as an excuse that it makes me delirious and hallucinogenic (or that the drugs I taking do), but I&#8217;m never <em>that<\/em> sick.\u00a0 I usually only get sick enough to be cranky and bitchy and tired (which are either two or three of the unloved Dwarves, I believe).<\/p>\n<p>So, when the current <em>Mary Worth<\/em> story continues to crawl at a glacier&#8217;s pace (I&#8217;m not even going to grace this by saying that the plot is <em>advancing<\/em> &#8212; at least glaciers that that in their favor), I notice, and I get even more annoyed by it than I usually do.\u00a0 Other serials have a similar slow-pacing, but <em>gee whiz! <\/em>Don&#8217;t think that you can keep a reader&#8217;s attention, week after week, by only changing the word order around or flipping the panels!\u00a0 Folks want <em>variety<\/em>! <em>Intellectual challenge<\/em>!\u00a0 <em>Philosophical quandaries<\/em>!\u00a0 <em>Ethical dilemmas<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, &#8220;eye-candy&#8221; works, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/new-jp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1714\" title=\"new-jp\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/new-jp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/new-jp.jpg 865w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/new-jp-250x109.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate being sick.\u00a0 It would be nice to have it as an excuse that it makes me delirious and hallucinogenic (or that the drugs I taking do), but I&#8217;m never that sick.\u00a0 I usually only get sick enough to be cranky and bitchy and tired (which are either two or three of the unloved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judge-parker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}