{"id":106,"date":"2004-05-24T12:41:57","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T12:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/?p=106"},"modified":"2004-05-24T12:41:57","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T12:41:57","slug":"weekend-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"weekend weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many consecutive posts can I have with W as the initial letter?<br \/>\nRemember <a href=\"http:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/archives\/000291.html\">Amy<\/a>?  On Saturday, I got a call from Amy herself.  It seems that her old phone number, now ours, had come out in some directory connected to a business she used to run.  She wanted to know if we could give people trying to contact her her new phone number.  A little weird, but I agreed, and wrote her number down on a small scrap of paper like I do with all addresses, phone numbers, and other such info, which soon disappear into some paper-scrap oblivion.<br \/>\nI sometimes learn interesting things from the Sunday Grand Rapids Press.  This weekend, I learned that the John Birch Society is still in existence.  I was previously familiar with this society only from Bob Dylan&#8217;s eponymous <a href =\"http:\/\/www.punkhart.com\/dylan\/lyrics\/jbsb.html\">Paranoid Blues<\/a>.  They think that Rush is too liberal, and they don&#8217;t regard the Michigan Militia as militaristic (an unmilitaristic militia?  Maybe it&#8217;s just a bridge club with a colorful name?).  The accompanying picture includes a sign reading &#8220;Get US out!  of the United Nations.&#8221;  Andy and I have been driving past a sign like that on the way to Chicago for the last several years, but in the past year it&#8217;s changed from a homemade one to a snazzy new one like the one in this picture&#8211;maybe the JBS is gaining influence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many consecutive posts can I have with W as the initial letter? Remember Amy? On Saturday, I got a call from Amy herself. It seems that her old phone number, now ours, had come out in some directory connected to a business she used to run. She wanted to know if we could give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}