{"id":417,"date":"2009-05-22T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=417"},"modified":"2009-05-22T11:18:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:18:59","slug":"almost-time-for-an-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/almost-time-for-an-outing\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost time for an outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

My 48 hours of house arrest are almost over – yay!!\u00c2\u00a0 I still look like heck, and my lungs still sound, well, interesting<\/em>, but I’m getting ready for my big outing this afternoon.<\/p>\n

“Abby, you’ve just been sick for days!\u00c2\u00a0 Where are you going next?”<\/p>\n

“I’m going to KMART!!!!”<\/p>\n

Yes, indeed, I’m going to KMart.\u00c2\u00a0 To buy more Kleenex.\u00c2\u00a0 I estimate that I’ve used up at least four boxes of Kleenex over the last week, and it’s definitely time to refill the Kleenex stockpile.\u00c2\u00a0 And maybe look at some plants, too.\u00c2\u00a0 We could stand a few more of those gorgeous $6.79 hydrangeas.<\/p>\n

And someday, hopefully soon, I’ll get back to writing about children’s literature on this blog.\u00c2\u00a0 But to be honest, children’s books and my job have been pretty far from my mind this last week.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s to the power of phlegm: it made me take a real break from work for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 48 hours of house arrest are almost over – yay!!\u00c2\u00a0 I still look like heck, and my lungs still sound, well, interesting, but I’m getting ready for my big outing this afternoon. “Abby, you’ve just been sick for days!\u00c2\u00a0 Where are you going next?” “I’m going to KMART!!!!” Yes, indeed, I’m going to KMart.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading Almost time for an outing<\/span> →<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}