{"id":5228,"date":"2011-06-22T20:44:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2011-06-22T20:44:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:44:15","slug":"uppers-and-downers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5228","title":{"rendered":"Uppers and downers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just performed a magic trick.<\/p>\n<p>I spent half an hour in the kitchen making a meal.<\/p>\n<p>And then I sat on the couch (because I am a slob, obv).<\/p>\n<p>And I made it disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Magic!<\/p>\n<p>Cottage pie, new potatoes, broccoli, peas, gravy and *cough* baked beans.<\/p>\n<p>All gone.<\/p>\n<p>*sniff*<\/p>\n<p>I am bereft.<\/p>\n<p>And also a bit HYPER!<\/p>\n<p>All this week I am working very full days in a hole beneath Salisbury Plain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a 200-mile round-trip that takes a smidge under four hours both ways.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, just for the briefest microsecond, I almost &#8211; but not quite &#8211; nodded off.<\/p>\n<p>At 70mph on the A303.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, not good.<\/p>\n<p>So today, before I set out on the return journey, I drank heavily from the cup of RED BULL.<\/p>\n<p>And as a result I&#8217;m just A LITTLE BIT HYPER.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I had my electric guitar restrung today, and had the action lowered, just for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>I think the guy who lowered the action is a blues guitarist, it feels really slick and easy now.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little concerned that I might have a Red Bull crash.<\/p>\n<p>You know.<\/p>\n<p>Just fall asle&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Only kidding!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still here.<\/p>\n<p>And still hyper.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up in this week&#8217;s show &#8211; for those who listen to the podcast &#8211; we have a live interview with a very special guest.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, an internationally-renown, globally famous British actor, will be gracing us with his distinctive vocal presence in this week&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so excited.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t told Soph, my co-presenter, yet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be a nice surprise for her.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so excited.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>Have I said that already?<\/p>\n<p>Must be the Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have another two days of this week to go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll get through them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just performed a magic trick. I spent half an hour in the kitchen making a meal. And then I sat on the couch<\/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-5228","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\/5228","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=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}