{"id":904,"date":"2008-08-06T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2008-08-08T00:00:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T06:00:55","slug":"like-the-roll-of-thunder-in-the-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Like the roll of thunder in the distance&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or perhaps Elly trundling toward the reception buffet in breathless anticipation. I&#8217;m really trying to avoid the Foob wedding.  Mostly I&#8217;m winning.<\/p>\n<p>(Gah! <em>Why why why<\/em> couldn&#8217;t the MRSA Mystery gone into the courtroom, with Max sweating profusely, his wife serving him divorce papers, his kid being more sullen and surly than usual, and Rex looking confused?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new-foob2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-908\" title=\"new-foob2\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new-foob2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new-foob2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new-foob2-250x47.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, maybe I&#8217;m losing, but<strong> sweet Jeebus on a pogo-stick<\/strong>, SIX limousines? Supplied by a used-car salesman? We can only hope that at least four of them look uncomfortably like hearses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/foob-1201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-911\" title=\"foob-1201\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/foob-1201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/foob-1201.jpg 800w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/foob-1201-250x84.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, oh, all the &#8220;girl talk&#8221; and chatter that goes on in the bride&#8217;s ready room!\u00a0 How <em>exciting<\/em>! How girly! How treacly! These are the thing the bride will remember years from now as she studies the lank, greasy kitchen curtains, and her lank, greasy husband&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new-foob3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-918\" title=\"new-foob3\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new-foob3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new-foob3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new-foob3-250x64.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new-foob1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or perhaps Elly trundling toward the reception buffet in breathless anticipation. I&#8217;m really trying to avoid the Foob wedding. Mostly I&#8217;m winning. (Gah! Why why why couldn&#8217;t the MRSA Mystery gone into the courtroom, with Max sweating profusely, his wife serving him divorce papers, his kid being more sullen and surly than usual, and Rex [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fbofw-aka-foob"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}