{"id":102,"date":"2003-12-17T01:16:49","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T09:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/root\/?p=102"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:10:17","slug":"picture-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/2003\/12\/17\/picture-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/12\/illme.png\" alt=\"[img] Me rocking the flu [36K]\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\nMe, so sick last week that all color had left the world [photo courtesy my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympusamerica.com\">digicam<\/a>]\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLast week sucked. I was sick, and being sick sucks. Plus, a whole bunch of other suckage contributed to the overall suck-fest. I&#8217;m pretty sure I almost died Tuesday night, before the fever broke, and I was having difficulty speaking for a couple of days. But I am better now, and by &#8220;better&#8221; I mean &#8220;able to breathe.&#8221; So the suckage is subsiding. Plus, I start my vacation in three more days, so my vision is starting to get all rosy-colored and everything looks that much more pleasant. Big company party tomorrow night (tonight! look at the time!) and then the final episode in the <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> trilogy, and on Thursday I get a pizza party, and then a free lunch on Friday, so this week is all peaches but the cream.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPointless update, I know. But really, they <em>all<\/em> are.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"np\">\nNP: Circulatory System, <i>Inside Blasts<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me, so sick last week that all color had left the world [photo courtesy my new digicam] Last week sucked. I was sick, and being sick sucks. Plus, a whole bunch of other suckage contributed to the overall suck-fest. I&#8217;m pretty sure I almost died Tuesday night, before the fever broke, and I was having [&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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}