{"id":234,"date":"2005-09-01T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2005-09-01T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T17:42:00","slug":"a-couple-jiggers-of-rye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2005\/09\/01\/a-couple-jiggers-of-rye\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple jiggers of rye."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/2005\/9\/1williams.html\">Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if, instead of a &#8220;double shot of espresso,&#8221; you could pound a couple jiggers of rye into this coffee? Then go back to work and pimpslap the boss? Yeah, that&#8217;d be great. Not gonna happen, though, fella. You&#8217;ll finish your pastry, grit your teeth, and get back to the grind. Bottoms up!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My oh my.  But seriously.  Oh my.<\/p>\n<p>I feel bad about feeling so good while people are doing so poorly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4205074.stm\">We are out here like pure animals. We don&#8217;t have help,&#8221; Rev Issac Clark told the Associated Press news agency outside the city&#8217;s convention centre, where dead bodies are still lying in the open.<\/p>\n<p>People have faced shoot-outs and some reports say martial law has been imposed in some areas. Armed gangs have moved into some hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Some have been breaking into shops, houses, hospitals and office buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Thieves used a forklift truck to break into a pharmacy, AP news agency reports, while dozens of carjackings have been reported.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made my donation, and honestly wish there was more I could do to help, but for personal reasons I&#8217;ve been walking on sunshine for the last couple days, and it&#8217;s difficult to break free of my happy myopia.<\/p>\n<p>My best wishes to all those <a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/116\/1524\/640\/sunflower%20clone.jpg\">displaced by nature.<\/a>  Life will find a way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if, instead of a &#8220;double shot of espresso,&#8221; you could pound a couple jiggers of rye into this coffee? Then go back to work and pimpslap the boss? Yeah, that&#8217;d be great. Not gonna happen, though, fella. You&#8217;ll finish your pastry, grit your teeth, and get back to the grind. Bottoms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}