{"id":1292,"date":"2009-02-26T21:42:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T21:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2009-02-26T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T21:42:44","slug":"the-remains-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"The remains of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am on the way home. It is 21.17, I&#8217;ll be home about 22.40. I&#8217;ve been up since 04.45. That, my friend, is a loooong day.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m tired. And hungry. And hungry. And tired. And a little bit grumpy but that might be related to the tiredness. And the grumpiness.<\/p>\n<p><em>[inserts random question: I&#8217;m going to record podcast episode 53 tomorrow afternoon. So what&#8217;s the worst job you&#8217;ve ever had? It could be a part-time or school holiday job. Comment here or email thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com with your answer]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The journey is going v.quickly but not quickly enough; I just want to be home.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to a recording of Edith Murray interview Duffy at The Brits, it sounds like a mentally defective person talking to a mentally defective person. How on earth do these people manage to survive the rigours of day-to-day life in the 21st century? I&#8217;m asking because surely they&#8217;re not allowed out by themselves? I find that idea far too frightening.<\/p>\n<p>Did Edith Murray go to the Fearne Cotton school of brain training? I&#8217;m not expecting a discourse on Wittgenstein&#8217;s philosophy of mathematics or even a synoptical statement on disambiguation&#8230; I would just like to hear a Q\/A session between two people who might sound as if their combined IQ was marginally higher than 42.<\/p>\n<p>Am I asking too much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on the way home. It is 21.17, I&#8217;ll be home about 22.40. I&#8217;ve been up since 04.45. That, my friend, is a loooong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}