{"id":6222,"date":"2020-04-03T05:28:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T09:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2020-04-03T00:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:41:49","slug":"fri-april-3-2020-another-week-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/03\/fri-april-3-2020-another-week-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri. April 3, 2020 &#8211; another week gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Cool and rain, that&#8217;s the forecast anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was cooler early and late, but did get past 80F at some point.  Intermittent rain kept me from doing big work in the driveway.  I didn&#8217;t want to untarp everything if there was a chance it would get soaked.   We never did get much rain though.  Today&#8217;s forecast is for rain.  I guess we&#8217;ll see if our part of Houston gets any.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re pretty well settled into the new reality.  Kids are getting used to remote school and working on their own. I&#8217;m working through my list.  The urge to go out is lessening.  Heck, I cut my own hair.  That&#8217;s a pretty big change.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what happens going forward from here, we&#8217;re well enough into this that things will be different.  Flip the switch in your head.  We&#8217;re not going to return to the way things were.  I&#8217;ve been saying for a while that it felt like one of those periods in world history when everything changes.  Remember?  War, famine, or plague.  I believe we thought it would be war.  Still could be.  It&#8217;s definitely a plague to get us started on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Something was coming for a while, and it just got here.  Now we have to get through it.  It&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve been getting ready to do.  Now is the time to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in, stay safe.<\/p>\n<p>nick <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Cool and rain, that&#8217;s the forecast anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was cooler early and late, but did get past 80F at some point.  Intermittent rain kept me from doing big work in the driveway.  I didn&#8217;t want to untarp everything if there was a chance it would get soaked.   We never did get much rain though.  Today&#8217;s forecast is for rain.  I guess we&#8217;ll see if our part of Houston gets any.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re pretty well settled into the new reality.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/03\/fri-april-3-2020-another-week-gone\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Fri. April 3, 2020 &#8211; another week gone &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebola","category-wuflu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}