{"id":1070,"date":"2005-12-21T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T22:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2005-12-21T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T22:22:01","slug":"the_longest_nig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Solstice<\/a>, everyone. My brother is about to leave for Australia and New Zealand, where the inhabitants are experiencing some strange weather phenomenon called “summer.” Apparently, these people are able to stay outside for extended periods without fearing that their tear ducts may freeze over. What a strange and exotic place. Meanwhile, i may have to rethink my policy on gloves. I usually don’t wear gloves in the winter because, as I’ve previously noted, I’m the toughest gimp on the block. But the other night I was walking home from a bar with some friends and we were a couple blocks from my building when I began to wonder whether my hands were still attached to my arms. In fact, a couple of my fingertips are still a bit numb and tingly. I just hope that my nurses don’t start cramming my hands into mittens. I still have my dignity, damnit.
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Happy Solstice, everyone. My brother is about to leave for Australia and New Zealand, where the inhabitants are experiencing some strange weather phenomenon called “summer.” Apparently, these people are able to stay outside for extended periods without fearing that their tear ducts may freeze over. What a strange and exotic place. Meanwhile, i may have […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-hg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}