{"id":274,"date":"2004-09-01T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2004\/9\/crickets.html"},"modified":"2004-09-01T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T12:48:00","slug":"crickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2004\/09\/01\/crickets\/","title":{"rendered":"crickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a month since the last post, so I guess it&#8217;s time to make some more excuses.  I <i>have<\/i> actually been somewhat busy, what with looking for work (yes, again.  do you <a href=\"mailto:louisa@custom-deluxe.com\" title=\"drop me a line\">have some work<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/cv\/lnheinrich.pdf\" title=\"CV\" target=\"_blank\">me<\/a>?), doing makeup consulting and various other stuff for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoplays.com\/showdetails.cfm?showid=5319\" title=\"Half Life\" target=\"_blank\">theatrical production<\/a> (chemical burns are fun!), cooking up big hunks of meat on the grill, and the usual swank parties, drinking and debauchery, I&#8217;ve been swamped.  <\/p>\n<p>And if that&#8217;s not enough to excuse the lapse, I&#8217;m also sick to death of this design and therefore working on a new one, along with an online portfolio of sorts that, even if it doesn&#8217;t actually help me procure paying work, will perhaps keep my brain from melting out my ears.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that the fact that I&#8217;m still determined not to turn this entire blog into a big long political rant (and therefore try to stay away from political material as much as possible): if you&#8217;ve opened a newspaper or turned on the television in the past two months, you know how close to impossible that is. <\/p>\n<p>So call it what you like: a frenetic lifestyle, chronic laziness, general boredom and malaise, or political hand-sitting.  There, is that enough?<\/p>\n<p>OK, OK.  I&#8217;ll give you one little morsel that isn&#8217;t about me making myself feel better: last Sunday, I was walking back from a sun-drenched coffee-drinking-paper-reading afternoon.  There, in the middle of Wolcott Avenue, was a man in a pale pink suit, matching fedora and faux-alligator shoes.  In a wheelchair.  An <i>electric<\/i> wheelchair.  Speeding down the perfect center of the street. Doing a wheelie.<\/p>\n<p>People, I&#8217;m telling you.  I couldn&#8217;t make this shit up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a month since the last post, so I guess it&#8217;s time to make some more excuses. I have actually&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}