{"id":286,"date":"2006-09-13T23:54:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T12:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/09\/13\/bored\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T12:58:11","slug":"bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/09\/13\/bored\/","title":{"rendered":"Bored?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once up a time, I was <em>trying<\/em> to concentrate on the essay I was writing, but I had been working on it for a while, and I was having trouble remaining focussed.<\/p>\n<p>My hands were fidgeting with my stapler as I re-read what I had written. I repeatedly opened and closed its grey steel form. I idly fingered the metallic tape strip that restrained the arc of the stapler arm. Then, I noticed that the metallic strip had some sort of inscription on it.<\/p>\n<p>My essay forgotten, I opened the stapler wide and held it up to the light, to see what had been written onto its internals.<\/p>\n<p>There, in my own handwriting, was a long-forgotten note that I had left for myself many years earlier:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bored? Me too!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once up a time, I was <em>trying<\/em> to concentrate on the essay I was writing, but I had been working on it for a while, and I was having trouble remaining focussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,31,30],"tags":[106,125],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-geek","category-humour","tag-anecdote","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}