{"id":6758,"date":"2023-03-03T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2023-03-03T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T03:50:09","slug":"optimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/optimum\/","title":{"rendered":"OptiMum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I woke the girls up late today, so I was pretty sure neither of them bathed. Eaddie might have the night before, but Autumn definitely looked like she&#8217;d slept on a park bench. I dropped them off in the rain, and then went home to hang out in the cold. It had stormed all night, and I sort of let that set my mood for the day. My biggest claim to fame was calling Optimum to lower Summer&#8217;s internet bill by more than half. The call itself was probably the most pleasant call I&#8217;ve ever had with a cable provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually I had to get the girls from school, so I took the three boxes of textbooks with me and had Eaddie ask Ethan to let me in. I dropped off the books, we swapped cars, and then headed home. Eaddie and I started watching <em>Breaking Bad<\/em>, and Summer made it home in the middle of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Autumn left for her father&#8217;s, and I ended up leaving to go to my parents&#8217; house for dinner. Uncle Rick was in town for the Hamfest, so we visited for a bit and ate curry. Afterward I took him for a ride in the Model 3, and eventually convinced him to drive it a few blocks home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Julie ordered an Xbox for me with a Verizon half-off code, and it had arrived already. I took it home, and then went back up to Summer&#8217;s for the evening. Eaddie ended up going to Maristella&#8217;s to spend the night, and Summer was already in bed. She had Quiz Bowl in the morning, so I was content to call it an early night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The whole point of those pages is to show off my personality, which should be considered an asset.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke the girls up late today, so I was pretty sure neither of them bathed. Eaddie might have the night before, [&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],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","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=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6759,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions\/6759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}