{"id":393,"date":"2003-12-22T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2003\/12\/22\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T00:42:22","slug":"orange-is-not-a-christmas-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2003\/12\/22\/orange-is-not-a-christmas-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange is not a Christmas Color"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

So, for some reason the terra alert system is upped to orange. The Mitt has taken some time out of his day before dashing off to his real home in Utah to update everyone on the situation. Except there doesn’t appear to be much of a situation, so he’s just listing off all of the groups who will now get overtime because Bush was afraid everyone’d forgotten about Saddam too quickly.<\/p>\n

I seem to have recovered from my mini-cold. This is good news, as the next two weeks will be full of funfilled travel. Oooh, ahh. Being on a plane with a headcold may not be hell, but it is definitely ranging somewhere underground.<\/p>\n

As some people may know, I am a biography addict. Biographies are expensive, and I’m not quite motivated enough to get to the library (or rather, I know I’m motivated enough to go get the books, but returning them on time is another story), so I don’t get to read a lot of them. Blogs, however, are the poor man’s biography. Many of them are extremely interesting and make for a compelling read. I find myself less interested in those blogs which are simply links or, say, political commentary, though those are okay if one is in the mood. But the ones I keep going back to are the ones who write about their lives. Is it voyeuristic? Perhaps, a little, but I think it’s a natural human impulse to wonder about other people. Television, movies, even books wouldn’t have much power if people didn’t enjoy feeling pulled into the story of someone else’s life.<\/p>\n

So, here are links to a couple of blogs which I swing by on a regular basis. The Sandbox<\/a>, which is written by a woman almost exactly my own age. I always feel very young and irresponsible when I read her writing, though. It probably has to do with her son; until I have my own children I think I’m always going to feel young and irresponsible compared to people who are actually parents already. Shooting Stars<\/a>, which I found when the woman who writes it, Heidi, posted a link to one of her entries on the Kindred Spirits mailing list. She was showing off pictures of her newly decorated nursery, and I was terribly, terribly impressed with the job she and her mother had done on it. Angry Babble<\/a>, who I first started reading when she was on pitas and posting gameblogs of Final Fantasy 9.<\/p>\n

Now, I must run off to go shopping with mom.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, for some reason the terra alert system is upped to orange. The Mitt has taken some time out of his day before dashing off to his real home in Utah to update everyone on the situation. Except there doesn’t appear to be much of a situation, so he’s just listing off all of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}