{"id":20,"date":"2003-12-19T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-08-12T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T17:51:03","slug":"20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/friends\/20\/","title":{"rendered":"No one makes friends with a failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil and I are terrible at keeping our xmas gifts secret from one another, so last night, when I was feeling down because I strained a muscle in my back or something, he decided a gift would make everything better. So he gave me the <em>Strangers With Candy <\/em>DVD box set! It rocks! That&#8217;s one of the most under-appreciated shows of our time. Kudos to Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello for their great writing. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s snowing today. Which is awesome. I still get a little giddy when it snows. If I ever move up north, that childish fascination with frozen rain will mutate into a seething hatred for all things white and fluffy, I&#8217;m sure. And it will happen around the 30th time I have to either dig my front door or my car out of 6 feet of snow. But for now, enjoy this fickle Tennessee weather!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridayfive.org\">Friday Five<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. List your five favorite beverages.<br \/>\n<br \/>Coke, orange juice, sweet iced tea, Mello Yellow, orange Kool-Aid<\/p>\n<p>2. List your five favorite websites.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\">Salon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.100words.net\">100 Words<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popcap.com\">Popcap<\/a> (for when I&#8217;m bored)<\/p>\n<p>3. List your five favorite snack foods.<br \/>\n<br \/>Milanos mint cookies, Wavy Lays with French onion dip, Pillsbury ready-to-bake chocolate chip cookies, Goldenflake sourdough butter pretzels, Mayfield moose tracks ice cream<\/p>\n<p>4. List your five favorite board and\/or card games.<br \/>\n<br \/>Clue, Trivial Pursuit, Aggravation, Scrutineyes, Boggle<\/p>\n<p>5. List your five favorite computer and\/or game system games.<br \/>\n<br \/>The Sims (and all its expansion packs), Ratchet and Clank, Spyro the Dragon, Sly Cooper, Animal Crossing<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil and I are terrible at keeping our xmas gifts secret from one another, so last night, when I was feeling down because I strained a muscle in my back or something, he decided a gift would make everything better. So he gave me the Strangers With Candy DVD box set! It rocks! That&#8217;s one of the most under-appreciated shows of our time. Kudos to Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello for their great writing. It&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-20","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}