{"id":97,"date":"2002-11-12T19:51:25-05:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T03:51:25+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=97"},"modified":"2002-11-12T19:51:25-05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-13T03:51:25+00:00","slug":"lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/11\/12\/lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Friday sucked.<\/p>\n\n<p>Saturday didn&#8217;t.  Sunday was pretty much the opposite of suckage.  And almost all&#8217;s well since.<\/p>\n\n<p>I <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2002\/11\/08\/perspective.html\">wrote<\/a> previously that perspective is a good thing, and Saturday proved it.  Where on the day before I was ready to throw in the towel and just-finally-move-to-Albania-and-raise-goats-dammit, I decided Saturday to turn my little crisis into an opportunity.  Perhaps I&#8217;ll post the core of the resulting manifesto here one of these days.<\/p>\n\n<p>But the event that really inspired me was this: I met a writer on Sunday.  Actually, I&#8217;d met her several times previously&#8211;as recently as a live-radio performance on Saturday night, in fact&#8211;but really had a chance to get to know her a bit better after we saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.org\/Title?0310793\">Bowling for Columbine<\/a> with a mutual friend.  She&#8217;s got a great attitude, a wicked sense of humour with timing to match, and she would very likely flay the first person to refer to her as <q>sweet<\/q> (which they&#8217;d do, &#8217;cause she is&#8230; kinda).  Naturally I lent her my copy of the torso-sized 35-year edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1883398460\/\">The Essential Ellison<\/a> (the paperback, but only because I haven&#8217;t finished the hardcover 50-year edition yet), not least of all because she gave an appropriately-horrified reaction to my friend when he <em>dared<\/em> to suggest that she might dog-ear the pages or break the spine.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now if I could only find out her last name&#8230;.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday sucked. Saturday didn&#8217;t. Sunday was pretty much the opposite of suckage. And almost all&#8217;s well since. I wrote previously that perspective is a good thing, and Saturday proved it. Where on the day before I was ready to throw in the towel and just-finally-move-to-Albania-and-raise-goats-dammit, I decided Saturday to turn my little crisis into an&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}