{"id":155,"date":"2008-08-11T21:42:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T04:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2008-08-11T21:44:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T04:44:14","slug":"hey-murphy-give-it-a-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/hey-murphy-give-it-a-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Murphy!  Give it a rest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plan is to spend 10 days steps away from the clear waters of panhandle Gulf Coast, starting Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 I contacted individual owners of a great property and negotiated nearly half off late-season rates for a last minute reservation.\u00c2\u00a0 The place has a water garden (complete with pirate ship), lazy river, zero-entry pool, and 3 bedrooms so that family could visit while we were there.\u00c2\u00a0 We booked a ticket for Paul&#8217;s Mom to fly in for a few days and arranged a visit from my parents from Mobile.\u00c2\u00a0 I even started making and freezing meals.\u00c2\u00a0 With all the excitement about the upcoming trip (the kids ask about &#8220;BEACH DAY&#8221; each morning), I completely forgot about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphys-laws.com\/\">Murphy&#8217;s Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So after a relatively quiet summer, wouldn&#8217;t you know that this just came out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/gtwo\/two_atl.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"NHC August 11 2008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/gtwo\/two_atl.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan is to spend 10 days steps away from the clear waters of panhandle Gulf Coast, starting Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 I contacted individual owners of a great property and negotiated nearly half off late-season rates for a last minute reservation.\u00c2\u00a0 The place has a water garden (complete with pirate ship), lazy river, zero-entry pool, and 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}