{"id":137,"date":"2011-05-11T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:35:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:35:04","slug":"rain-vs-bladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Rain vs. bladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my way to deliver a print job a little while ago when it started <i><b>pouring<\/b><\/i> down rain. Since it seemed like hauling cardboard boxes of (expensively printed) paper out of my trunk in the middle of a deluge might not be the best idea ever, and since I was very near Southlake Town Square, I zipped into one of the parking garages to wait it out.<\/p>\n<p>I read my email. I looked at Facebook. I read through all the tweets in both my personal and business Twitter accounts. Still pouring.<\/p>\n<p>My attention was flagging a little, but the threat of several hundred bucks&#8217; worth of envelopes turning to pulp, or \u2014 worse \u2014 hail damage to my new(ish) car, kept me stationary. (<i>Stationery. <\/i>Envelopes. <b>Har!<\/b>)<\/p>\n<p>After a while, though, I started wondering if it were the iced tea and water I had had with lunch, or the coffee I had afterwards that I was beginning to regret. Eventually I began having second thoughts about the whole bunch of them, plus all other beverages, so I took my chances with the rain.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a joke here about being wet, raining, pouring, outside and inside. I&#8217;ll leave that up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my way to deliver a print job a little while ago when it started pouring down rain. Since it seemed like hauling cardboard boxes of (expensively printed) paper out of my trunk in the middle of a deluge might not be the best idea ever, and since I was very near Southlake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}