{"id":500,"date":"2010-10-19T20:39:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T03:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2010-10-19T20:39:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T03:39:55","slug":"tiny-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Victories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was trucking away at the seam while the <a href=\"http:\/\/bashertcomics.com\">Blanket Thief<\/a> and I were watching TV.\u00a0 After the last show, I looked down at my lap and proudly exclaimed, &#8220;I&#8217;m almost done!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-499\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/19\/tiny-victories\/p1020147\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-499\" title=\"P1020147\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1020147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Blanket Thief looked over, raised his eyebrows, and said, &#8220;Uh, honey?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you still have to make the border?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not only do I have to make it, I have to sew the whole damn thing on as well.\u00a0 <em>And<\/em> I have to do the other seam in the blanket.\u00a0 But the point I was <em>trying<\/em> to make is that I&#8217;m almost done with <em>this<\/em> <em>seam<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure he didn&#8217;t get it, but he decided to play along.\u00a0 He just doesn&#8217;t understand that on a slog like this one, you really have to celebrate the tiny victories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was trucking away at the seam while the Blanket Thief and I were watching TV.\u00a0 After the last show, I looked down at my lap and proudly exclaimed, &#8220;I&#8217;m almost done!&#8221; The Blanket Thief looked over, raised his eyebrows, and said, &#8220;Uh, honey?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you still have to make the border?&#8221; &#8220;Not only [&hellip;]<\/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":[37],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}