{"id":8993,"date":"2021-01-07T21:47:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T02:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2021-01-07T21:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T02:48:17","slug":"off-to-the-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=8993","title":{"rendered":"Off to the Races"},"content":{"rendered":"

And 2021 is off and running. The Biden\/Harris election win is official, Democrats have taken the majority in the Senate, and Trump Cultists stormed the Capitol because “Boo hoo! Trump lost.” What an amazing time to be alive. (Psssssst … that’s sarcasm.)<\/p>\n

And now, some randomness.<\/p>\n

This is always a fun sight to see when you actually haven’t told your PC to update. Thankfully, Geek Squad nerds got me back up and running in a few days with no major data loss. They think the hard drive was starting to fail. Pretty lame for a computer that is only four years old. This is why I have a Macbook Pro for all my non-official work and personal stuff.
\n\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

We rang in the New Year by drinking the last of the egg nog. I was asleep before midnight. Old Fart for the win!
\n\"Egg<\/a><\/p>\n

The USPS *finally* came through and delivered the last Christmas presents well after Christmas.<\/p>\n

A&A sent these really awesome Divine\/Pink Flamingos<\/em>-themed socks and I LOVE THEM! Now, if I could just get David to watch the movie.
\n\"Divine<\/a><\/p>\n

And, David got me these stupidly expensive yet totally awesome screenplay books<\/strong><\/a> from A24<\/strong><\/a>. I am a total sucker for their brand of slow burn, artsy horror.
\n\"A24<\/a><\/p>\n

Now if the USPS would locate and move along my copy of Arrow’s 4K release of David Cronenberg’s Crash<\/em>, I would be the happiest man on the planet. It’s been stuck in South Jersey since December 21. Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And 2021 is off and running. The Biden\/Harris election win is official, Democrats have taken the majority in the Senate, and Trump Cultists stormed the Capitol because “Boo hoo! Trump lost.” What an amazing time to be alive. (Psssssst … that’s sarcasm.) And now, some randomness. This is always a fun sight to see when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,2,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-daily","category-horror","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-2l3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8995,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions\/8995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}