{"id":353,"date":"2005-07-13T09:41:40","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T14:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=353"},"modified":"2005-07-13T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T14:41:40","slug":"yep-sure-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Yep. Sure is."},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning whistling the song played during the opening traffic jam sequence of Office Space<\/i>. Not the gangsta rap song that Michael Bolton hid from the flower seller, but the brass and percussion ditty that plays around it all. I took it as a bad sign. Then, I got wind of this little animated motivator<\/a>, and I knew it was going to be, in the most clich\u00e9 way possible, one of those days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning whistling the song played during the opening traffic jam sequence of Office Space. Not the gangsta rap song that Michael Bolton hid from the flower seller, but the brass and percussion ditty that plays around it all. I took it as a bad sign. Then, I got wind of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1,6,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-5H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":317,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=317","url_meta":{"origin":353,"position":0},"title":"Too right. Too wrong.","date":"5\/13\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night, MHG and I were up late (she worked until 3a.m., God bless her) working on her online store. 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It allowed me to show some dramatic range and really concentrate on what my voice does in song, but the theme was difficult to grasp properly and the audience's tended to walk away a little bewildered, so not a lot of praise was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ennui"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}