{"id":261,"date":"2006-08-07T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/08\/id-pun-on-the-word-rock-but-life-is-too-short\/"},"modified":"2006-09-01T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T15:31:50","slug":"id-pun-on-the-word-rock-but-life-is-too-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/08\/07\/id-pun-on-the-word-rock-but-life-is-too-short\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d pun on the word &#8216;rock&#8217; but life is too short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to write about our new rocking chair, and my exciting excursion into North London to collect it, but my sentences are disappointing me. Everything I write seems cumbersome and clumsy, and I can&#8217;t tell whether this is due to a temporary inability to write, or a temporary inability to make sense of it when I read it back to myself.<\/p>\n<p>The rocking chair itself is slightly less than awesome &#8211; it has a chunky lever to switch between &#8220;rock&#8221; mode and &#8220;rock steady&#8221; mode, but the lever has a tendency to crunch back into &#8220;rock steady&#8221; mode of its own accord. A temporary fix has been implemented using twine. The chair also squeaks a bit when rocking to and fro, but I don&#8217;t think twine would be much help for that.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these failings, our new rocking chair provides good support for a nursing mother, which will hopefully banish her steadily-worsening backache back to whence from came it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to write about our new rocking chair, and my exciting excursion into North London to collect it, but my sentences are disappointing me. Everything I write seems cumbersome and clumsy, and I can&#8217;t tell whether this is due to a temporary inability to write, or a temporary inability to make sense of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}