{"id":3506,"date":"2013-02-02T17:31:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T22:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2013-02-02T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T22:31:24","slug":"a-big-ugly-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"A Big Ugly Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Groundhog Day, which is when otherwise intelligent people take a break from listening to the usual set of rodents telling them what the weather will be like for a while, and instead tune into a specific rodent for their precipitory\u00a0prognostication, despite the fact that there&#8217;s not a damn thing anyone can do about the weather regardless of who&#8217;s lying to them about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the Big Ugly Man Doll woke this morning before the sunrise to the sounds of &#8220;Daddy, you&#8217;re going to need the plunger because it won&#8217;t flush.&#8221;\u00a0 Arising from my bed, I saw the long shadow of the next 6 weeks stretching out before me, filled with snow, slush, sun, and not enough beer in the world.\u00a0 Based on this, I can reasonably predict the next 6 week will continue to be cold and shitty, not that there&#8217;s a damn thing you can do about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Groundhog Day!<\/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":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506"}],"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=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}