{"id":5015,"date":"2014-04-20T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T01:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2014-04-20T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T01:11:15","slug":"grumbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5015","title":{"rendered":"Grumbling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I paid my property taxes today.  Well, not really.  Being a modern fellow I have them electronically withdrawn on exactly May 10th, the day they are due.  But I entered them into my accounting program today, so it was like paying them.  I was grousing as I did so, &#8220;I don&#8217;t own this land, I just rent it from the government. Grumble, grumble, grumble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later today I finally finished &#8220;A Sand County Almanac&#8221; by Aldo Leopold.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5016\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140420_210041_037.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140420_210041_037-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Well Marked\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140420_210041_037-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140420_210041_037-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140420_210041_037.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well Marked<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s a library book, so I couldn&#8217;t mark in it.  I went through one whole pack of blue sticky notes and had to switch to pink markers.<\/p>\n<p>I was reflecting on the marvels of a book that took a pack and a half of sticky notes, and then it occurred to me that the property taxes I just paid paid for this book in my hand.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not feeling near so grumbly now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I paid my property taxes today. Well, not really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curmudgeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}