{"id":11235,"date":"2008-07-25T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/25\/a-taste-of-freedom"},"modified":"2008-07-25T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T15:32:00","slug":"a-taste-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/25\/a-taste-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"A Taste of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a Friday and everyone knowns that on Fridays something happens. In offices around the country and cubes to the ends of the earth, joyous bursts of &#8220;It&#8217;s a Friday&#8221; erupt on faces. Bounces return to once-dragging steps. And &#8220;good-mornings&#8221; feel a little less like a mockery. It&#8217;s the light in a co-worker&#8217;s eyes as the clock nears 4 or 5pm and the excuses of &#8220;anything to get me out of here&#8221; begin formulating in heads. It&#8217;s the breaking of silence, the stretching of arms and legs from beneath flimsy &#8220;steel&#8221; desks and ice-age computers. It&#8217;s the first step toward the door, quickly followed by the second and third as if forty-hours of sole-sucking wasn&#8217;t enough for one week and we feel bad for leaving before the forty-plus mark is hit. It&#8217;s the blissful cries of hearts as the sun hits our faces and the parking lot draws near. The sound of the trees rusting in the wind, foreignly loud to once-deaf ears. The thoughts of &#8220;two whole days!&#8221; overwhelming hot-dog roasting car interiors. And that first engine turning&#8230; and the sound of the windows gliding down&#8230; and the feeling of the breeze on your face as the jail cell is left in the rear-view mirror&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ahhhhhh yes!!!! The weekend is so near I can taste it!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a Friday and everyone knowns that on Fridays something happens. In offices around the country and cubes to the ends of the earth, joyous bursts of &#8220;It&#8217;s a Friday&#8221; erupt on faces. Bounces return to once-dragging steps. And &#8220;good-mornings&#8221; feel a little less like a mockery. It&#8217;s the light in a co-worker&#8217;s eyes as&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/25\/a-taste-of-freedom\/#more-11235\">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-11235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235","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=11235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}