{"id":282,"date":"2010-07-17T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T15:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viciousgrin.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2010-07-17T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T15:43:45","slug":"absentee-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/17\/absentee-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Absentee Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a bad blogger. I promised an update during the long weekend and didn’t deliver. I apologize. Lots. I even had a fun post about shoes drafted that I never bothered to post. Some day soon. Promises.<\/p>\n

It has been super hot here the last few weeks. We haven’t hardly had a chance to enjoy our kickass patio set we bought because the heat and humidity has been so oppressive. Such is life in Maryland. Our in ground garden has been pretty productive now that we’ve fended off the deer and weeded it. Our container garden has not done as well. Note to other container gardeners: ceramic pots create too much heat and cook the roots of your plants. Next year we’re going to fork over the cash and go with some whiskey barrel pots instead.<\/p>\n

The most exciting thing was the earthquake yesterday<\/a>. It woke Trey and I both up at 5am when it happened. I remember my cat growling waking me up. Apparently, Trey woke up and asked why the headboard was shaking. I told him the whole house was shaking and that it was an earthquake and to go back to sleep (I do not remember saying this, but he swears I did). He told me it wasn’t an earthquake, this is Maryland, it was just a low-flying plane. When he got up and checked the Internet, my earthquake claims were confirmed.<\/p>\n

It is a little known fact that there is a very large, dangerous fault line underneath the Eastern seaboard. It is often forgotten because it is not very active at all. We’ve been hearing a few more reports of other earthquakes steadily moving west. Like dominoes.<\/p>\n

Next week, we head to San Diego for our honeymoon. This includes two days at the San Diego Comic-Con<\/a>. We are very excited. Trey gleefully enjoys telling people where we’re going for our honeymoon. Then, even more gleefully, he enjoys telling people that it was MY idea to go to Comic-Con for a honeymoon. I am the nerd girl. It is true.<\/p>\n

So, that’s really all I’ve got going on. Work has been picking up in busy-ness rather steadily the last few weeks. Planning for the honeymoon has consumed a lot of my leisure Internet time. Sitting down and writing has not been foremost on my mind, sadly. I hope I’ll have more to say post Comic-Con.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a bad blogger. I promised an update during the long weekend and didn’t deliver. I apologize. Lots. I even had a fun post about shoes drafted that I never bothered to post. Some day soon. Promises. It has been super hot here the last few weeks. We haven’t hardly had a chance to … <\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[50,46,52,19,48,47,49],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-adventures","category-odds-and-ends","tag-blog","tag-comics","tag-gardening","tag-house","tag-life","tag-nerdery","tag-work","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":717,"url":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/black-swallowtail-butterflies-like-parsley\/","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":0},"title":"Black Swallowtail Butterflies Like Parsley","author":"Jess","date":"June 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This weekend, I have learned something new and interesting about, arguably, some of the prettiest insects in the animal kingdom, butterflies. Lining our driveway, in the rainwater runoff path, we have a butterfly garden planted with many pretty blooming plants (and currently, a healthy host of weeds). On our deck,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "House Adventures"","block_context":{"text":"House Adventures","link":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/category\/house-adventures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Black Swallowtail caterpillar eating parsley","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-npG9uYcC4aA\/U6clJ3ORvMI\/AAAAAAAAGzg\/xO2nUABDpjE\/w1168-h782-no\/001.JPG?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/naughty-decoy\/","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":1},"title":"Naughty Decoy","author":"Jess","date":"June 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Our house has a really nice sized deck. It has an excellent view in the winter and a good mix of view and privacy in the spring and summer when the trees have leafed out. It also gets quite a lot of sun. This is both good and bad. Good\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "House Adventures"","block_context":{"text":"House Adventures","link":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/category\/house-adventures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":598,"url":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/28\/impatient-horticulture\/","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":2},"title":"Impatient Horticulture","author":"Jess","date":"March 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I am not the gardener in the family. Never have been. My mom had a decent sized garden when I was a kid and she taught me the basics of crop rotation, watering, and weeding. I took advantage of plucking fresh string beans off the vine and popping them in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "House Adventures"","block_context":{"text":"House Adventures","link":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/category\/house-adventures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sprouting-plants.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sprouting-plants.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sprouting-plants.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sprouting-plants.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sprouting-plants.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sprouting-plants.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":401,"url":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/the-power-outage-effect\/","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":3},"title":"The Power Outage Effect","author":"Jess","date":"April 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Power Outage Effect is having the all-consuming urge to heat something in the microwave, charge my phone, or check the internet when the power is out. I'm having the same effect with the looming government shutdown and associated furlough. I am potentially about to be without a paycheck and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Odds and Ends"","block_context":{"text":"Odds and Ends","link":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/category\/odds-and-ends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":819,"url":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/28\/displaced-by-jonas\/","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":4},"title":"Displaced by Jonas","author":"Jess","date":"January 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"So, that title is a little misleading and also somewhat unfair to the blizzard that wreaked havoc on us last week and hasn't really let us forget it. But it is the milestone marker for the insanity we've dealt with since he came round. As a professional nerd who lavishes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "House Adventures"","block_context":{"text":"House Adventures","link":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/category\/house-adventures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":385,"url":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/this-is-why-i-dont-go-to-the-doctor\/","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":5},"title":"This Is Why I Don’t Go To the Doctor","author":"Jess","date":"March 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"So, we needed to get our gutters cleaned. They were gross. It caused us problems during the Snowpocalypse of 2010 with hugemongous icicles forming on the side of our house. They dangled from the gutters and attached to one of the spare bedroom's window. And then it melted. Into the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "House Adventures"","block_context":{"text":"House Adventures","link":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/category\/house-adventures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/050.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/050.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/050.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/050.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/050.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/050.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}