{"id":409,"date":"2005-09-07T20:21:18","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T03:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2005-09-07T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T05:24:08","slug":"ouch-that-cut-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Ouch! That Cut Deep!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning at the office the printer\/copy machine ran out of paper. I got a couple of reams and started to kneel down to put the paper in the bottom tray when a woman whom I wouldn&#8217;t classify as &#8220;young&#8221; asked, &#8220;Would you like me to do that? I&#8217;m younger than you&#8230;&#8221; That really brought me up short. I must be starting to look old &#8230; I sure don&#8217;t feel old!<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least not until this evening. Five trees are being delivered and planted tomorrow. Tom, the mower boy, with vacation and school starting, hasn&#8217;t been able to mow the grass for about a month. The places were the trees are going were rather deep in grass. Tom couldn&#8217;t get here until tomorrow night. So, I&#8217;ve mowed the grass once again. I&#8217;m pooped. Andre Aggasi is loosing in the semifinals at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usopen.org\/en_US\/index.html\" target=\"_Blank\">US Open<\/a>. Maybe he&#8217;s feeling a bit old tonight as well. I was hoping he&#8217;d be able to pull it off and win a Major one last time. Time to go to the hot tub!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stop the presses!!<\/strong>Three asprin and a soak in the hot tub, I came back quite refreshed to find Agassi had come back! The game went to five sets. Agassi pulled it out in a tie break! Incredible.<\/p>\n<p>A HUGE Thumbs Down, however to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/feedback\/\" target=\"_Blank\">USA Network<\/a>. I&#8217;ve sent them an email with the subject line: How Absolutely Stupid of You!!<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nThe best game of the US Open. The absolutely incredible Agassi comeback.\r\n\r\nYou break away before the match is finished for an inane rerun of Law and Order.\r\n\r\nHow incrediby stupid. I remember the Heidi incident from a number of years ago. \r\nYou've managed to be more stupid than that.\r\n\r\nDumb, dumb, dumb.\r\n\r\nYou owe the tennis world a major apology along with eating a big dose of crow.\r\n\r\nRoland\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning at the office the printer\/copy machine ran out of paper. I got a couple of reams and started to kneel down to put the paper in the bottom tray when a woman whom I wouldn&#8217;t classify as &#8220;young&#8221; asked, &#8220;Would you like me to do that? I&#8217;m younger than you&#8230;&#8221; That really brought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ouch! That Cut Deep!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-6B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}