{"id":30,"date":"2013-11-06T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2015-04-05T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T19:50:49","slug":"6th-day-of-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"6th Day of Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, Biddy is feeling much better, thank you for asking. Unfortunately, though, the x-rays they took last night show a couple of things that could be very bad news, indeed. They&#8217;re going to repeat the x-rays tomorrow, so hopefully we&#8217;ll find out more. (Please, if you would, say another prayer or two for her.)<\/p>\n<p>Okay, then. Today I&#8217;m thankful that I&#8217;m living in such amazing times! For all the bad things in the world, and the progress-run-amuck, I still think that having antibiotics and cars that can parallel park themselves is, all in all, a very good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Not every discovery is really an advancement, and not every step forward takes us someplace\u00a0<i>better<\/i>, necessarily. But we move forward. And the good things, I think, outnumber the bad.*<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I&#8217;m glad to be here to see all this happening!<\/p>\n<p>*Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/josh_silver_demos_adjustable_liquid_filled_eyeglasses.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, for example. I mean, really, who would have ever thought we could come up with this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, Biddy is feeling much better, thank you for asking. Unfortunately, though, the x-rays they took last night show a couple of things that could be very bad news, indeed. They&#8217;re going to repeat the x-rays tomorrow, so hopefully we&#8217;ll find out more. (Please, if you would, say another prayer or two for [&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\/30"}],"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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}