{"id":124,"date":"2002-06-13T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-13T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/124"},"modified":"2002-06-13T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-13T10:41:00","slug":"unidentified-orb-washes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/124","title":{"rendered":"Unidentified orb washes up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycfnow.com\/sh\/news\/stories\/nat-news-151072820020613-090621.html\">Unidentified orb<\/a> washes up on South Carolina shore.  Nobody knows what it is.<br \/>\nCould it be related to whatever&#8217;s making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmel.noaa.gov\/vents\/acoustics\/sounds\/bloop.html\">the mysterious blooping noise<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/go.fark.com\/cgi\/fark\/go.pl?IDLink=207332&#038;location=http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2002\/06\/13\/1023864318809.html\">the middle of the ocean<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>We finally accepted an offer from the people who want to buy our lot.  I&#8217;m a bit miffed because we came down 10% voluntarily, while they only came up 5%.  The process of negotiation is supposed to be a give-and-take, not a take-and-take.  If this weren&#8217;t our only offer in a year and a half, I probably would have told them to hit the road.  Unfortunately, it&#8217;s a buyer&#8217;s market right now.  We&#8217;re always on the wrong side of the market &#8211; bought 3 pieces of real estate when it was a seller&#8217;s market, and selling this one in the buyer&#8217;s market.  Ah, well.   Such is life.<\/p>\n<p>The two year old is really being a pill lately.  She&#8217;s a complicated kid, and always has been.  But she&#8217;s a very loving kid, which helps make up for her temper.   Amazing how different two kids can be from each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified orb washes up on South Carolina shore. Nobody knows what it is. Could it be related to whatever&#8217;s making the mysterious blooping noise in the middle of the ocean? We finally accepted an offer from the people who want to buy our lot. I&#8217;m a bit miffed because we came down 10% voluntarily, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}