{"id":91830,"date":"2012-06-30T23:02:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T03:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91830\/flippin-switch\/"},"modified":"2012-06-30T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T03:02:58","slug":"flippin-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91830\/flippin-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"like flippin&#8217; a switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">last night (Friday 6\/29) at 10:25pm I was sleeping, soundly&#8230;suddenly (like flippin&#8217; a switch) the winds started howling, torrential rains (and maybe some hail) pummeled the house&#8230;the lightning seemed continuous, and the power went out&#8230;it came back on 21 hours later&#8230;the &#8220;roomie&#8221; and I hung out all day long&#8230;Lunch, a movie&#8230;a visit to her workplace (to cool off) and then Dinner, then home&#8230;the power came back on around 7:35&#8211;we were checking her e-mail in her office when she got one informing her (and the other residents of our neighborhood) that the power was back on&#8211;and it still is&#8230;there was talk of more storms, but that hasn&#8217;t happened yet&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">there was a band playing nearby that I&#8217;d hoped to go see, but (I think) their gig was canceled&#8230;there was a band playing even closer, but I&#8217;d had enough of the heat&#8230;they were playing outside&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I THINK the workplace has power&#8230;I guess I won&#8217;t know for sure &#8217;til I get there&#8230;If there&#8217;s no power and I can&#8217;t work the shift, I will still get paid for 3 hours&#8230;it just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">might<\/span> be almost kinda nearly sorta in a way worth it to go all the way down there, turn around and come back&#8230;we&#8217;ll see&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">ADDENDUM&#8211;the workplace had power, but I THINK the AC is programmed to NOT run on Sunday&#8230;I may not have done everything, but I did more than I thought I would&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last night (Friday 6\/29) at 10:25pm I was sleeping, soundly&#8230;suddenly (like flippin&#8217; a switch) the winds started howling, torrential rains (and maybe some hail) pummeled the house&#8230;the lightning seemed continuous, and the power went out&#8230;it came back on 21 hours later&#8230;the &#8220;roomie&#8221; and I hung out all day long&#8230;Lunch, a movie&#8230;a visit to her workplace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}