{"id":420,"date":"2006-12-23T01:32:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T08:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2006\/12\/time-to-give-up\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:42:38","slug":"time-to-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2006\/12\/23\/time-to-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to give up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to post about getting presents  yesterday.  I was supposed to have cookies and chips and fudge yesterday, too.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I got nothing.  I got even more than nothing &#8212; I got a tiny bit of hope that I hadn&#8217;t cleared out a path to the road for nothing, and an &#8216;Out for Delivery&#8217; on the thing I ordered Overnight on the 19th.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s now got a delivery date of the 26th, and I&#8217;m betting that everything else won&#8217;t be here until nearly the end of the month now.<\/p>\n<p>UPS really does intend to ruin my little part of the holiday season.  I guess it&#8217;s just far more important that they get their employees&#8217; packages moved around, so their employees&#8217; families can have the holiday they&#8217;re expecting.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to go out and shovel a little more tonight, but I don&#8217;t think I will now. It&#8217;s a little pointless to not be lazy when so many others are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to post about getting presents yesterday. I was supposed to have cookies and chips and fudge yesterday, too. Instead, I got nothing. I got even more than nothing &#8212; I got a tiny bit of hope that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2006\/12\/23\/time-to-give-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-6M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}