{"id":618,"date":"2005-04-01T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T20:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/04\/01\/various-sundry-part-thirteen\/"},"modified":"2005-04-01T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T20:47:02","slug":"various-sundry-part-thirteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/618","title":{"rendered":"Various &amp; Sundry, part thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8212; Month of March workout totals: Swim-7; Bike-3; Run-3; Lift-7.\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; Time to boost my running and cycling mileage. Plenty of mild weather ahead; no more excuses for the recent pitiful stats.\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; Today at my Rotary luncheon I sat next to a retired English professor who&#8217;d served on a nearby ship during the battle for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/uj\/2005\/02\/21\">Iwo Jima<\/a>. It caused me to think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/search\/uj?q=Josh&amp;submit=Search\">Josh<\/a>, with the profound hope that in 60 years, he, too, might be enjoying a pleasant meal with his friends.\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; We&#8217;ll be heading back to Indiana tomorrow to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/search\/uj?q=Bruce&amp;submit=Search\">Bruce<\/a>. His ongoing exhaustion remains a concern to us. We can&#8217;t overlook the steady improvement, though, even if the pace has been tortuous.\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; Stalin supposedly scoffed, &#8220;How many divisions does the Pope have?&#8221; More than adequate, as we&#8217;ve come to see, with the collapse of Soviet Communism in the 1980s, due in part to the bold stand for human freedom taken by this Polish priest turned world leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Month of March workout totals: Swim-7; Bike-3; Run-3; Lift-7. &#8212; Time to boost my running and cycling mileage. Plenty of mild weather ahead; no more excuses for the recent pitiful stats. &#8212; Today at my Rotary luncheon I sat next to a retired English professor who&#8217;d served on a nearby ship during the battle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,8,11,16,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}