{"id":231,"date":"2008-06-08T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=231"},"modified":"2008-06-08T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T19:16:08","slug":"insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It could be the heat, I&#8217;m not entirely sure, but I went a little insane this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting at the computer, trying to update our woefully out-of-date finances, I suddenly lost it.\u00c2\u00a0 Ran and grabbed the vacuum.\u00c2\u00a0 Starting vacuuming up the ants that began invading the house this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t work.\u00c2\u00a0 Ran to the foyer.\u00c2\u00a0 Grabbed a pair of shoes.\u00c2\u00a0 Stomped around the house yelling, &#8220;I hate you!\u00c2\u00a0 I hate you!\u00c2\u00a0 I hate you!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Along with some other words, not polite ones.*<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of dead ants in our house now.\u00c2\u00a0 But even more live ones, having a little party in our basement.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m off to my boiling hot car to drive to the hardware store to buy ant traps &#8211; a lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>I hate summer.\u00c2\u00a0 Blech.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00c2\u00a0 it should be noted that I&#8217;m usually quite peace-loving when it comes to insects; the only ones I kill without hesitation are mosquitoes.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise I usually choose one of two options: walk around and ignore said insect, or gently scoop it up on a piece of paper and take it outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could be the heat, I&#8217;m not entirely sure, but I went a little insane this afternoon. Sitting at the computer, trying to update our woefully out-of-date finances, I suddenly lost it.\u00c2\u00a0 Ran and grabbed the vacuum.\u00c2\u00a0 Starting vacuuming up the ants that began invading the house this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t work.\u00c2\u00a0 Ran to the foyer.\u00c2\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/insanity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Insanity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc","category-spare-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}