{"id":2052,"date":"2011-11-18T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2011-11-17T23:59:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T03:59:53","slug":"a-thankful-countdown-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"A Thankful Countdown: Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to count down to Thinksgiving, and take a moment each day to think about things I&#8217;m thankful for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number Six:\u00a0 <\/strong>Fridays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, who hasn&#8217;t had more than one moment of TGIF &#8211; it&#8217;s been a really, really messed up week, and you&#8217;re just ready to relax for the weekend.\u00a0 You could taste it waking up this morning, couldn&#8217;t you?\u00a0 You were just as ready as the next guy for a decent beverage, and the next guy is Mel Gibson, isn&#8217;t it?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday night\u00a0is why god invented painkillers.\u00a0 Sure, Saturday morning dawns with the consequence it has, but by Friday you&#8217;re ready to live this day like the next will never come.\u00a0 Friday leads straight, sure as the day follows the night, to that which we&#8217;re all working for &#8211; the weekend.\u00a0 Friday is a zipline to 48 hours of honey-do lists and soccer games, catching up on laundry, shopping, and remembering what your spouse looks like during the day.\u00a0 But just as a bad day fishing beats a good day working, whatever your weekend plans are, they&#8217;re more exciting than going to your office on Monday or Tuesday morning, aren&#8217;t they?\u00a0 (If you answered no with a straight face, you <strong>really<\/strong> need to get out more.)<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday to all, and to all, a good weekend!\u00a0 How could I leave you, but with this:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KlyXNRrsk4A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to count down to Thinksgiving, and take a moment each day to think about things I&#8217;m thankful for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}