{"id":1406,"date":"2004-01-02T08:43:51","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T13:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/the_first_day_i"},"modified":"2004-01-02T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T13:43:51","slug":"the_first_day_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"The first day is the hardest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cold and rainy today and the weather report doesn&#8217;t look so good.<\/p>\n<p>There is a certain attraction to the idea of holing up inside where it is warm and dry and watching DVDs I haven&#8217;t seen yet, but my ideal scene writeup is already kicking up some activity. <\/p>\n<p>That is one of the side benefits (or curses) of making predictions that work. They often start immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\nI have some customers to talk with, some projects to finish in the shop, and some new ideas to try out. I will tackle all of these now before the weather gets any worse and the power goes out. <\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Isabel weakened many more trees than we thought. Every storm since Isabel, even light ones, causes more trees to fall. This is something I have not seen before. Almost every week, we see more trees hanging on phone and power lines and nearby forests are littered with new fallen trees. As a result, there are many more power outages than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>We are even considering an auxiliary power generator for the first time in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, I am burning daylight here and I must get going. <\/p>\n<p>I hope you can make good use of this first Friday in 2004, because this year, like the last one, will be over before we know it. Happy New Year&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cold and rainy today and the weather report doesn&#8217;t look so good.<\/p>\n<p>There is a certain attraction to the idea of holing up inside where it is warm and dry and watching DVDs I haven&#8217;t seen yet, but my ideal scene writeup is already kicking up some activity. <\/p>\n<p>That is one of the side benefits (or curses) of making predictions that work. They often start immediately.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1406\">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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1794],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-mG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}