{"id":10,"date":"2002-07-06T23:17:35","date_gmt":"2002-07-06T23:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2002-07-06T23:17:35","modified_gmt":"2002-07-06T23:17:35","slug":"racing-the-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Racing the Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the wife and I took a vacation with our assorted in-laws to
\nOcean City<\/a>.
\nAs far as vacations go, I’m quite pleased. Lots of relaxation
\nwith bits of fun mixed in for good measure. Luckily, the week gave me one
\namusing story (at least to me) to relate.<\/p>\n

See, one of my favorite pastimes on vacation is reading. I usually bring a couple
\nof books with me as well as a magazine or two. This vacation was no different.
\nI had brought a couple of novels, among them
\nGood Omens<\/a>
\nand the
\nfirst Harry Potter<\/a>
\n book (yep, I’m behind the curve on this one), and some gaming magazines.<\/p>\n

So there I was, laying in lounge chair by the pool, soaking up the sun,
\nsettling down for a good reading session with the latest issue of
\nComputer Gaming World<\/a>
\n(I’m a game geek; I know it) when I noticed something
\nparticular. The pages of the magazine were slowing coming apart. In fact, they
\nwere coming apart one page at a time, almost in cadence with my reading.
\nI would read a page and the page a couple of sheets back would break free.<\/p>\n

I should have known it was all going downhill when I noticed that I was leaving
\nblue fingerprints on the pages. Hmmm, I thought, I didn’t have any blueberries
\ntoday (as a side note, I’ve never had blueberries which made this conclusion all
\nthe easier). It seems that the magazine was slowly melting in my hands; kind
\nof like M&Ms<\/a>,
\nregardless of their little catch-phrase.<\/p>\n

So what was I to do? That’s right. I needed to read the magazine before it
\ncould fall apart on me. I would read a page and a page would fall out. I’d
\nread another and two more would fall out. Would I make it? Could the knight
\nslay the beast? What was in store for our hero next episode?<\/p>\n

I’d like to say there was some drama involved, but there wasn’t. Any drama
\nthat existed was found solely in my brain as I triumphantly completed the
\nissue in just time (so there sun, take that). The sad, crumpled mess of paper
\nthat was once a magazine retired to the trash bin while I moved on to seek
\nother challenges. It seems that you do have to take life’s little victories where
\nyou can find them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, the wife and I took a vacation with our assorted in-laws to Ocean City. As far as vacations go, I’m quite pleased. Lots of relaxation with bits of fun mixed in for good measure. Luckily, the week gave me one amusing story (at least to me) to relate. See, one of my favorite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}