{"id":3555,"date":"2019-10-21T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2019-10-21T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T03:44:12","slug":"turning-up-the-back-burners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2019\/10\/21\/turning-up-the-back-burners\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Up the Back Burners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I expected orders today, but none came. Brice and I were left in the shop, so he came with me to the high school to clean up some super old, low-priority work orders that I&#8217;d just never gotten around to completing. It felt really good to get so much accomplished, but I&#8217;m not sure anyone else was doing the same. Half of the department was out, and we never heard anything from the other half that showed up. Brice and I just kept trucking on what we were doing, only taking a quick break for some Zaxby&#8217;s. I dropped some off for Summer on the way back to the shop, where I spent a little time catching up with Gary before jumping back into the work we were doing at high school.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t see the email right away, but Ben sent everyone home at 3:30. Brice and I finished up what we were doing and left eventually. I came home and relaxed for a little bit before going to my parents&#8217; house for dinner. Dad was back from his trip to visit his family in the north, so we chatted a while. Then I came home and intended to catch up on a little gaming since I don&#8217;t remember the last time I had an opportunity to do any of that, but instead got caught up watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z0zPM_m_YOA\">some guy on the internet sort pennies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The songs are there. They exist all by themselves just waiting for someone to write them down. I just put them down on paper. If I didn&#8217;t do it, somebody else would.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I expected orders today, but none came. Brice and I were left in the shop, so he came with me to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,27],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-family","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}