{"id":330,"date":"2011-01-28T07:29:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-01-28T07:29:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T14:29:13","slug":"friday-poetry-holidaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; Holidaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Holidaze<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in the world<br \/>\nPeople are dancing in the street<br \/>\nCelebrating a holiday<br \/>\nOne I might never meet<\/p>\n<p>Every day of the year<br \/>\nAnd I do mean every one<br \/>\nIs special for some place somewhere<br \/>\nA reason to have fun<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Army Day in Armenia<br \/>\nI bet they&#8217;ll have parades<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s three Feast Days as well<br \/>\nWhich can be done with lemonades<\/p>\n<p>So celebrate the day<br \/>\nNo matter where you might be<br \/>\nEvery day is a holiday<br \/>\nSunny, bright and free!<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>It really is Army Day in Armenia.\u00a0 I look up most days in Wikipedia just to find out what holiday it is somewhere, and then I wish my son or daughter (via chat or texting) a happy whichever holiday it is.\u00a0 I always have several choices.\u00a0 Armenian Army Day sounds particularly interesting to me, and I am betting they really do have parades, but I don&#8217;t know for sure.<\/p>\n<p>I did not yet raise my monitors, by the way.\u00a0 I expected to have my last contractor paycheck direct deposited on Wednesday, but since it&#8217;s my last pay from them my agency cut a physical check.\u00a0 That meant I should have been paid yesterday, but the blizzard in the east has held that check hostage.\u00a0 Unfortunately for me and a few dozen other folks, they don&#8217;t run paychecks locally.\u00a0 So I am not spending anything more than I have to.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s all I have for this week.\u00a0 See you on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holidaze Somewhere in the world People are dancing in the street Celebrating a holiday One I might never meet Every day of the year And I do mean every one Is special for some place somewhere A reason to have fun It&#8217;s Army Day in Armenia I bet they&#8217;ll have parades It&#8217;s three Feast Days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}