{"id":647,"date":"2005-01-20T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/?p=647"},"modified":"2005-01-20T23:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T05:57:00","slug":"working-at-the-car-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"working at the car wash&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my quest today to find <a href=http:\/\/www.ebgames.com\/ebx\/product\/245460.asp>Katamari Damacy<\/a> which is apparently sold out everywhere in the area, because, as one EBGames employee put it &#8220;word of mouth on this game is so great it&#8217;s selling like mad,&#8221; which I believe because that&#8217;s the reason I was going out to buy it, I decided to get a car wash.<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes later it started snowing like mad. By the time I got home, roads were slick enough to spin out on. Goodness gracious.<\/p>\n<p><img src=http:\/\/www.chaoskid.com\/picaday\/2005_01_20.jpg><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the president was being resworn in (the &#8220;Reoathening&#8221; as they called it on the Daily Show.) I don&#8217;t understand why they do a reinauguration for two-term presidents. Lots of talk about it on the John Williams (I think) show on WGN radio. A woman on the show said how she really loves watching it because it&#8217;s great that we have the transfer of power without anyone getting stabbed, shot or killed&#8230;.. But it wasn&#8217;t a transfer of power. No power was transferred. It&#8217;s the same guy. Maybe it was wishful thinking on her part &#8212; maybe she thinks Kerry won.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever &#8212; I think it&#8217;s like signing a lease for an apartment. The first time you sign the lease, yeah, there&#8217;s some ceremony, some packing, some moving, maybe even a parade or a party or two. When you renew your lease, it&#8217;s not nearly as interesting a time. I think that&#8217;s just about how re-elected presidents should do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my quest today to find Katamari Damacy which is apparently sold out everywhere in the area, because, as one EBGames employee put it &#8220;word of mouth on this game is so great it&#8217;s selling like mad,&#8221; which I believe because that&#8217;s the reason I was going out to buy it, I decided to get [&hellip;]<\/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-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}