{"id":401,"date":"2009-06-30T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/?p=401"},"modified":"2009-06-30T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T20:39:31","slug":"401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2009\/06\/401\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly wing and bath bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, well I am derelict in my blogging duties&#8211;I suppose the three month hiatus destroyed my momentum. I used to roll down hills with gusto, and now it takes me a while to talk myself into grass stains and burrs. This is a metaphor, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>I am on a mental holiday (does this mean sanity is not needed) this week&#8211;and I spent it thus far tackling all the stupid, horrible bureaucratic tasks I had piled up in papers all over my home. The primary one: renewing my son&#8217;s support grant. Very dull excel file resulted. I would rather languish near rabid cats with open sores around their eyes than be an accountant.<\/p>\n<p>Other dull tasks: two passports to get renewed (how sad I let these expire&#8211;in fact, I am shocked with myself!&#8211;it shows how my basic nomadic nature must be submerged in midwestern algae due to our three-year self-inflicted travel ban).<\/p>\n<p>Then, gasp, did I mention the exciting goal of painting our kitchen in &#8220;butterfly wing&#8221;? Wonderous days ahead, folks. It feels damn good to not be sitting in my plastic office chair. It feels damn good to be undertaking tasks that I choose, even if they are dull&#8211;at least I can be barefoot and nibbling on a fake BLT, should it be a V (vegan) LT or a S (soy) LT?<\/p>\n<p>My son went to community crafts and made &#8220;bath bombs&#8221; which apparently explode once in water and send out pleasant fumes. I am a little hesitant to drop these things into the bathtub&#8211;whoever named them should be ticketed for offensive terminology. I will dutifully report the results post-dropping. Pray for peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, well I am derelict in my blogging duties&#8211;I suppose the three month hiatus destroyed my momentum. I used to roll down hills with gusto, and now it takes me a while to talk myself into grass stains and burrs. This is a metaphor, obviously. I am on a mental holiday (does this mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2792,2795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ordinary-muse","category-respite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}