{"id":4787,"date":"2011-12-17T13:26:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T18:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2011-12-17T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T18:42:15","slug":"xmas-xpletives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4787","title":{"rendered":"Xmas Xpletives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dogonnit but when you think you&#8217;ve got everything settled you should be prepared for surprise. I our case Claudia and I had Christmas all wrapped up early. We&#8217;d put up the decorations early. The presents were all purchased if not gift wrapped. Everything suggested a leisurely walk to December 25th. <\/p>\n<p>Then I woke up this morning after a glorious night&#8217;s sleep and found I&#8217;d left the tap in the upstairs sink running all night and that the drain was partially clogged. I wouldn&#8217;t have cussed so much if I&#8217;d thought someone else&#8217;s carelessness had been to blame. I just hate being an idiot. It was worse when I turned off the tap and still heard water running. That was the puddle growing in the living room. I ran to get mops in the basement and had to step over more puddles there to grab towels. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been finding more nooks and crannies all morning to mop up after we thought we&#8217;d gotten everything cleaned up. We&#8217;re running a couple dehumidifiers and I&#8217;ve got a big fan spinning in the living room. <\/p>\n<p>I cut some dripping, bulging skimcoat from our new basement ceiling to let it air out until we can call someone to do some plaster work.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t get in a very holiday like mood till Claudia brewed some coffee a couple hours after the clean up had eased off and we could sit down in the sun room and press Elmo&#8217;s mitten to get him to sing &#8220;Deck the halls.&#8221;  Its Jakeie&#8217;s favorite decoration. Now I know why.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogonnit but when you think you&#8217;ve got everything settled you should be prepared for surprise. I our case Claudia and I had Christmas all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}