{"id":1899,"date":"2001-10-31T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-01T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2021-05-25T19:40:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T23:40:56","slug":"happy-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2001\/10\/31\/happy-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy \/ Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/booksbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Happy Halloween.And Happy Birthday to my Dad.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#8217;ve definitely been sidetracked from doing any sizable updates to the site. I installed Windows XP last weekend, and I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time getting used to it and personalizing it to my liking. I also discovered I had to download a big Java pack just to see the silly little <i>LOTR<\/i> countdown, below [since removed, following the release of <i>Fellowship of the Ring<\/i>]; so my apologies to anyone else who got caught by that &#8212; but then again, you&#8217;d probably have to install it somewhere down the line anyway.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The big reason I felt so compelled to write today, apart from trying to kill time at work, is because I spotted this link just now. Terry Brooks, author of the <i>Shannara<\/i> series and plagiarizer of all things Tolkien, has a new book out, with an unbelievably clumsy and inopportune title.  Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.lycos.com\/features\/terry_brooks.asp\">Lycos<\/a> link!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Happy Halloween.And Happy Birthday to my Dad.&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#8217;ve definitely been sidetracked from doing any sizable updates to the site. I installed Windows XP last weekend, and I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time getting used to it and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2001\/10\/31\/happy-happy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-links","category-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}