{"id":1708,"date":"2008-04-01T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/2008\/04\/01\/anticipation\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T19:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T19:27:59","slug":"anticipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/anticipation\/","title":{"rendered":"anticipation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that old Heinz ketchup commercial? Those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsdepot.com\/carly-simon\/anticipation.html\">on-point lyrics<\/a>, courtesy of Carly? Wait, am I dating myself? For the record, I&#8217;m 26 (give or take a few years, maybe even a decade). OK, I think I&#8217;ll stop right there.<\/p>\n<p>Well, without completely blowing up my own spot, let&#8217;s just say that I feel as though I&#8217;m constantly in a state of waiting&#8230;for an answer, for the call, for the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">check<\/span>! I mean, really! Is it just me? I guess I just wish I could come up with something constructive to do in the meantime. Nature walks in the morning <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">do<\/span> help. So, do green tea frappaccinos, but the last thing I need right now is a pricey vice.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;enough of my baggage.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Monday afternoon and aside from my anticipation issues, it&#8217;s been a good day. The sun is out, shining bright, which is always a good thing. Am doing a little transcribing, adding up some receipts for taxes &#8217;07 and trying to be positive about life, despite having driven past a no-name gas station at Melrose and Fairfax selling $4.42 gas, for <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">regular<\/span>! As if. I&#8217;d rather push my car to the next Chevron or just call AAA.<\/p>\n<p>Am catching up on some <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ugly Betty<\/span> episodes on DVD. This shit is hilarious. Where was I during season one?<\/p>\n<p>And much, much love to the Levert family. It hardly seems real, or fair, that they could lose two of their own in two year&#8217;s time. My first thought was of Sean&#8217;s three kids, but then I thought that he just might be OK since he&#8217;s reunited with this big brother. Life, just <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">life.<\/span> Gotta keep it all in perspective, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that old Heinz ketchup commercial? Those on-point lyrics, courtesy of Carly? Wait, am I dating myself? For the record, I&#8217;m 26 (give or take a few years, maybe even a decade). OK, I think I&#8217;ll stop right there. Well, without completely blowing up my own spot, let&#8217;s just say that I feel as though&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/anticipation\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">anticipation.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}