{"id":4518,"date":"2013-12-04T17:31:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2013-12-04T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:34:03","slug":"the-tarmac-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=4518","title":{"rendered":"The Tarmac of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Old Skeeter\u2019s got to fly out to the tundras of Wisconsin this next week. Ma and Pa Daddle are getting up there in age and I need to go see them more often these days. Sure don\u2019t want to look back and feel like these opportunities passed. I guess this is true for most everything. I \u00a0don\u2019t want to find myself in the rocker on the porch of the Mabana Retirement Villa wishing I\u2019d done that or wondering why I didn\u2019t do this\u2026. just watching the traffic out on the highway whizzing by while I\u2019m waiting for my feedbag or the next group social hour in front of the bigscreen babysitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">So I\u2019m going to be basking in the warmth of the red state Heartland, talking to my folks with their twin hearing aids while Fox News is on 24\/7 at a decibel level that would kill a liberal democrat. Over the years I\u2019ve built up some pretty solid immunity, but then, you never really know, do you? Anyway, I\u2019ll leave you some old stuff down at the bottom of the blogsite\u2019s compost pile you can maybe scroll down to if you have the patience. I\u2019ll turn the volume down before I go. But be forewarned: it\u2019s going back up when I get home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">And don\u2019t forget: I got a book reading and book signing at the Snow Goose Bookstore Friday the 13th, 7PM. Give you a fine opportunity to criticize the critic. Only fair\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Skeeter\u2019s got to fly out to the tundras of Wisconsin this next week. Ma and Pa Daddle are getting up there in age and I need to go see them more often these days. Sure don\u2019t want to look back and feel like these opportunities passed. I guess this is true for most everything. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}