{"id":87,"date":"2003-04-11T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=87"},"modified":"2003-04-11T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2003-04-11T17:22:31","slug":"its_a_beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Beautiful Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy getting my next story started, so I&#8217;ve been neglecting my blogging duties.  The weather here in Minneapolis has finally turned nice, and as I type this late-afternoon sunshine is streaming through my windows.  I have a corner unit, so my windows face south and west.  It can get pretty warm in here if I leave the blinds open.  In the summer, it can sometimes be like walking into a sauna.<br \/>\nI saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/39\/30209.html\">this article<\/a> stating that Apple may purchase Universal Music.  Um&#8230;wow.  It&#8217;s certainly an interesting possibility.  After all, Apple&#8217;s tagline for their computers was once &#8220;Rip, Mix, Burn.&#8221;  Free MP3s for iPod owners?  PowerBooks conspicuously placed in music videos?<br \/>\nAnd this has a got to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/wire\/2003\/04\/11\/tv_prize\/index.html\">dumbest idea<\/a> for a television show that I&#8217;ve ever heard.<br \/>\nOh, and just a reminder: Republicans are still stupid.  From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A1249-2003Apr9.html\">Washington Post<\/a>:<br \/>\n<b>Yesterday&#8217;s debate suddenly veered from guns to race when Cubin criticized a failed Democratic amendment that would have banned gun sales to drug addicts or people in drug treatment. After noting that her sons, ages 25 and 30, &#8220;are blond-haired and blue-eyed,&#8221; she said: &#8220;One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean that if you go into a black community you can&#8217;t sell any guns to any black person?&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy getting my next story started, so I&#8217;ve been neglecting my blogging duties. The weather here in Minneapolis has finally turned nice, and as I type this late-afternoon sunshine is streaming through my windows. I have a corner unit, so my windows face south and west. It can get pretty warm in here <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=87' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-87","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-1p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}