{"id":32912,"date":"2018-09-17T08:34:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=32912"},"modified":"2022-01-11T02:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:51:07","slug":"macro-monday-will-make-it-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2018\/09\/17\/macro-monday-will-make-it-quick\/","title":{"rendered":"Macro Monday Will Make It Quick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1881\/30743307538_f8912dc7b6_h.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1881\/30743307538_f8912dc7b6_h.jpg?resize=700%2C1051&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"700\" height=\"1051\" \/><\/a>TA-DA, look, a macro photo. My obligation is fulfilled and now I jetpack away!<\/p>\n<p>OKAY FINE, some quick bits &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>First, I&#8217;ve no idea what kind of bug that is? Some kind of leafhopper treehopper thing. Speaking of which, holy shit are we inundated with lanternflies now &#8212; they&#8217;re an invasive asshole bug and we were eating pizza outside at a restaurant on Saturday night and they were criss-crossing the air above us. I went to kill one and a\u00a0<em>second one<\/em>\u00a0<em>landed on me<\/em> as I was trying to kill the first. They&#8217;re becoming as common as mosquitos. And they eat apple trees? Those motherfuckers.<\/p>\n<p>Second, speaking of apples, #heirloomapplereview has begun once more on THE TWITTERS, so hie thee hence if you want to watch me review apples on Weird Apple Twitter. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/status\/1033732333248163841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Start here for appley mirth<\/a>. Will likely be ongoing through the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>Third, look, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/watch-you-might-be-the-killer-the-horror-comedy-that-started-life-as-a-viral-twitter-thread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SyFy did a bit of an article on YMBTK<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Fourth and finally, the first book of my Heartland trilogy,\u00a0<strong>Under the Empyrean Sky<\/strong>, is $0.99 at Amazon, and the audio is only $1.99 &#8212; so <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MzReFj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check that out<\/a> if you want something that has been described as Star Wars meets John Steinbeck.<\/p>\n<p>AND THAT IS IT.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Monday, hoomans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TA-DA, look, a macro photo. My obligation is fulfilled and now I jetpack away! OKAY FINE, some quick bits &#8212; First, I&#8217;ve no idea what kind of bug that is? Some kind of leafhopper treehopper thing. Speaking of which, holy shit are we inundated with lanternflies now &#8212; they&#8217;re an invasive asshole bug and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-theramble","9":"has-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DmNIH99W4AEiV0f.jpg?fit=1199%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-8yQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32917,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32912\/revisions\/32917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}