{"id":1005,"date":"2006-02-05T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T22:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2006-02-05T21:22:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T02:22:31","slug":"birthday-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/birthday-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents think I am tough on socks. <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=272\">Every year at my birthday, they send me more socks.<\/a> Last year, dark blue. This year, darker black.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m hoping that the increased darkness is only a matter of style and not some omen.<br \/>\nTo counteract the black, my son gave me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cackalacky.com\/store.htm\">Carolina blue &#8220;Cackalacky&#8221; billcap<\/a>.<br \/>\nSally gave me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosgeschocolate.com\/Detail.aspx?ID=935&#038;CategoryID=312\">a dark chocolate Oaxaca Bar<\/a> (with guajillo and pasilla chillies) &#8212; a bit of sweet\/bitter darkness with hot spice not unlike that made in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0241303\/\">Chocolat<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of darkness: I wonder if anyone besides me was surprised that Woody Allen&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0416320\/\">Match Point<\/a><\/em> was somehow described as a <strong>comedy<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triangle.com\/content\/movies\/theaters\/Chapel_Hill-Varsity.html\">the local movies site<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Match Point  \tR<br \/>\nComedy \tsexuality<br \/>\nWoody Allen is back in fine form with this dark and engaging story starring Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, whose chemistry is captivating. &#8211; wire 2 hours, 4 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Along the way, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrypoetry.com\/Features\/RobertBly\/RobertBly.php\">audio of Robert Bly reading his translation of Pablo Neruda&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Ode to my Socks&#8221;<\/em>and other poems at Unity Temple, in Oak Park, Illinois, on October 22, 2005.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents think I am tough on socks. Every year at my birthday, they send me more socks. Last year, dark blue. This year, darker black. I&#8217;m hoping that the increased darkness is only a matter of style and not some omen. To counteract the black, my son gave me a Carolina blue &#8220;Cackalacky&#8221; billcap. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}