{"id":3012,"date":"2004-12-18T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/18\/getting-ready\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:46:22","slug":"getting-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/18\/getting-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9552,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/infinitebility.blogspot.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310203720\\\/https:\\\/\\\/infinitebility.blogspot.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 22:02:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 05:28:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 05:28:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/12\/graphics\/lotr.png\" height=\"281\" width=\"193\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Lord of the Rings collection\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far, unless anyone does a surprise show on my doorstep (well&#8230;secured entrance to the apartment building), it looks like it&#8217;ll be a fairly small group for the Lord of the Rings fest today: myself, Prairie, and <a href=\"http:\/\/infinitebility.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Infinite Probability\">Robert<\/a>, unless something falls through on his end.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got the house clean (or at least presentable), and Prairie&#8217;s working on putting together a plate of munchies to carry us through the first stretch of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got one half-written post open, and another couple in my head, so there will be more things appearing to make up for my relative quietude of late, but they&#8217;ll likely not show up until tomorrow at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>Just some general ramblings while we putter around and get ready for the day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some general ramblings while we putter around and get ready for the day&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2037],"tags":[13,1853],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-life","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}