{"id":543,"date":"2011-05-31T04:05:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T04:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2011-05-31T04:05:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T04:05:16","slug":"almost-a-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"almost a another year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we get a sunset we can see. A nice and welcome break from the end of what seems like an eternal spring.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a portion of this long weekend reading (for the first time) <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slaughterhouse-Five\">Slaughter House Five<\/a><\/em>. I didn&#8217;t choose the book because of Memorial day, but I fully appreciate the coincidence, and in that respect, I think it was fitting. Also, now I know why so many folks have told me to read this book. If you&#8217;ve never read the book, you should. It will take you less than a day. Afterward you won&#8217;t be able to stop thinking about it. I swear that <em>Slaughter House Five<\/em> should be on a required reading list for being human.<\/p>\n<p>If you like Kurt Vonnegut Jr, you might want to check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/3605\/the-art-of-fiction-no-64-kurt-vonnegut\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I got an early start to celebrating my birthday this weekend, with a family dinner, Uris style. It reminded me of all the years I spent celebrating my birthday with my extended family, which meant a lot to me. However the rest of my birthday plays out, last night was pretty perfect.<\/p>\n<p>A bank of clouds, visible form my front window, has turned nearly the color \u00a0of fuchsia. We really do get amazing sunsets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we get a sunset we can see. A nice and welcome break from the end of what seems like an eternal spring. I spent a portion of this long weekend reading (for the first time) Slaughter House Five. I didn&#8217;t choose the book because of Memorial day, but I fully appreciate the coincidence, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banality","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}