{"id":646,"date":"2005-12-19T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2005-12-19T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T07:31:00","slug":"when-asterisks-are-abused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/when-asterisks-are-abused\/","title":{"rendered":"When asterisks are abused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/th_ifckedalecbaldwininhisas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1248\/288\/320\/th_ifckedalecbaldwininhisas.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Alec Baldwin\" title=\"Alec Baldwin\"\/><\/a><br \/><font SIZE=\"1\">Please don&#8217;t visit the URL on the bumper sticker!<\/font><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/06\/22\/i_fed_alec_baldwin_i.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is about. But I saw it and it made me wonder if, perhaps, this is why Amber&#8217;s mom doesn&#8217;t much care for Alec Baldwin.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m up late, putting the finishing touches on my remaining shopping list. I&#8217;ve got most of the family done, but tomorrow is the day to tackle the stragglers. In some ways, it&#8217;s kind of fun to wait until the week of Christmas to do some blitz shopping. If you think of it as a scavenger hunt or something, that is. I&#8217;ve got a loose route mapped out. It&#8217;s bound to take me all over town. That&#8217;s okay; one of my small pleasures here is just driving around and looking at stuff. There&#8217;s a lot to look at; I see new stuff every day, still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please don&#8217;t visit the URL on the bumper sticker! I don&#8217;t know what this is about. But I saw it and it made me wonder if, perhaps, this is why Amber&#8217;s mom doesn&#8217;t much care for Alec Baldwin. I&#8217;m up late, putting the finishing touches on my remaining shopping list. I&#8217;ve got most of the family done, but tomorrow is the day to tackle the stragglers. In some ways, it&#8217;s kind of fun to wait&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}