{"id":11093,"date":"2008-09-17T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/17\/a-little-tired"},"modified":"2008-09-17T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T16:01:00","slug":"a-little-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2008\/09\/17\/a-little-tired\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Tired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blackout continues for this household while 100 feet behind us still has sturdy power and I think I saw a kitchen light on in my neighbor&#8217;s house. Part <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">of<\/span> me yearns to be awoken at 3am to 60-watt floodlights and a ceiling fan. But Matt&#8217;s words, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there are really that many people working the third shift to repair power,&#8221; seem to hold some truth. I&#8217;m trying not to be complain-y and ungrateful. I mean come on, Matt and I have running water and a roof. But it does make it a bit harder to be grateful while standing in the darkness and missing <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">essential<\/span> clean-clothes items. My creativity is starting to drain as I am finding less <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">nutrition<\/span> in those <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">microwaveables<\/span>, I ate half a less-fresh yogurt for breakfast that was &#8220;saved&#8221; from our <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">power outage<\/span>, work presses on, and the night&#8217;s rest seem less and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">less<\/span> satisfying with varying temperatures, church emergency exterior lights waking me up (have to crack the blinds to keep from overheating) and my white-noise fan silenced. Matt&#8217;s also getting behind in his school work. Again, I&#8217;m trying not to be complain-y and ungrateful, but as I skim over the words I just wrote I&#8217;m not sure if I was able to accomplish such. Let me tell you one thing that is nice that happened as a result of the blackout: Matt and I got a chance to spend unexpected time with his family, mine and a good friend&#8217;s family for mealtime and candle-lit fun. Last night we were even spoiled by the taste of electricity when we went to a friend&#8217;s in-law&#8217;s home for taco night. (Matt even got to play <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">video games<\/span>.) So really things could be much worse. It&#8217;s just that the joy of playing survivor is starting to wear off a bit. I keep waiting in eager anticipation of Matt&#8217;s phone call reporting that the ban has been lifted. Oh what a joyous day that will be.<\/p>\n<p>Hope the rest of you out there are coping well with the blackout.<\/p>\n<p>And I also hope the rest of you out there with electricity are appreciative of that blessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blackout continues for this household while 100 feet behind us still has sturdy power and I think I saw a kitchen light on in my neighbor&#8217;s house. Part of me yearns to be awoken at 3am to 60-watt floodlights and a ceiling fan. But Matt&#8217;s words, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there are really that many&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2008\/09\/17\/a-little-tired\/#more-11093\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}