{"id":1267,"date":"2019-07-02T04:14:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T09:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2019-10-24T06:31:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T11:31:18","slug":"week-27-2019-the-more-they-stay-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Week 27, 2019 &#8211; &#8230;The More They Stay The Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, here we are, not eight weeks since <a href=\"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=1237\">that previous post<\/a>, and I&#8217;m coming off of two weeks without internet, and almost as long <em>without\u00a0electricity<\/em>.  As is the case 90% of the time that our finances implode, there was no budgetary snafu on my part, just people doing whatever the hell they wanted regardless of what I or the budget said. &#x1f611;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, I am <em>acutely aware<\/em> of the irony inherent in going from having had <em>twenty-freakin&#8217;-grand<\/em> in the bank just a few months ago, to <em>this<\/em> complete <em>clown&nbsp;fiesta<\/em>, but as I&#8217;d already explained if I hadn&#8217;t spent it my situation would probably be <em>worse<\/em> right now. (Hard as that may be to imagine.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully things can start moving forward again, though I&#8217;m not gonna hold my breath. This situation exposed many flaws in the other members of the family unit and the\u2014oftentimes <em>uni<\/em>directional \u2014nature of our relationship.&#x1f612;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here we are, not eight weeks since that previous post, and I&#8217;m coming off of two weeks without internet, and almost as long without\u00a0electricity. As is the case 90% of the time that our finances implode, there was no budgetary snafu on my part, just people doing whatever the hell they wanted regardless of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,28],"tags":[46],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts","category-status-report","tag-embuggerances"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NlLW-kr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwf_post_folders&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}