{"id":906,"date":"2004-11-24T19:03:05","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T23:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/24\/the-country-life\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T01:36:17","slug":"the-country-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/24\/the-country-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Country Life."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Finally made it to the country, after a few false starts in trying to leave the city (note to self:  when dad calls and says be at his apartment at 1 so that we can leave, show up at 2:15.  It won&#8217;t make a difference).<\/p>\n<p>My hacking cough is entertaining everyone.  I think they&#8217;re all worried that I&#8217;m literally going to cough up a lung.  pleasant, huh?<\/p>\n<p>And the computer situation has been figured out, sort of.  In that it can&#8217;t be figured out.  The wireless network works (as evidenced by my ability to publish this entry), but apparently the brilliant IT guys at my stepmother&#8217;s office configured her computer so that it <em>only<\/em> can connect to the internet through dial-up to her Company&#8217;s VPN.  They appear to have removed the ability to set up new network connections.  Because even though she bought the computer herself, the couldn&#8217;t conceive of the thought that she might want to be able to something other than access her work e-mail through the phone line.  In 2004.  I&#8217;m going to try a few other backdoor things over the weekend, but I think she might be stuck until they can reinstall the correct software programs.<\/p>\n<p>And now my dad is feeding the dog a peanut butter sandwich filled with medication (the dog is old and arthritic).  Exciting, huh?  And I wonder why, by the end of the weekend, I&#8217;m always jonesing to get back to my little apartment in the middle of a construction site&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  (and thanks, Rick, for the warm wishes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally made it to the country, after a few false starts in trying to leave the city (note to self: when dad calls and says be at his apartment at 1 so that we can leave, show up at 2:15. It won&#8217;t make a difference). My hacking cough is entertaining everyone. I think they&#8217;re all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[20,3],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-family","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-eC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}