{"id":1284,"date":"2010-08-05T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T17:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2010-08-05T13:51:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T17:51:40","slug":"by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/1284","title":{"rendered":"By the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a little better, for no apparent reason.  I think it might be good to not leave the house for days at a stretch.  Although my haircut is scheduled and isn&#8217;t a home visit.  I expect to put some pics up at some point.  You should be prepared for my hair to be partying more or less like it&#8217;s 1999.  I&#8217;ve had really long hair for a really long time.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here are some numbers for you:<\/p>\n<p><b>1<\/b>:  The number of known readers who have finished <i>The Best of All Possible Worlds<\/i>.<br \/>\n<b>3<\/b>:  The number of books I have finished reading since the crisis began (<i>White Noise<\/i>, <i>If On a Winter&#8217;s Night a Traveler<\/i>, <i>Snow Crash<\/i>).<br \/>\n<b>4<\/b>:  The number of games the Mariners have won since the crisis began.<br \/>\n<b>12<\/b>:  The number of pounds I have lost since the crisis began.<br \/>\n<b>17<\/b>:  The number of days elapsed since the crisis began.<br \/>\n<b>17.8<\/b>:  The number representing my current body mass index (BMI).<br \/>\n<b>27<\/b>:  The length, in inches, of my longest hair.<br \/>\n<b>46<\/b>:  The number of people who have contacted me in some way to express condolences on my situation.<br \/>\n<b>50<\/b>:  The number of dollars you will have to pay to haul away <a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphia.craigslist.org\/atq\/1882346253.html\">Fish&#8217;s &#8220;antique&#8221; mirror<\/a>.<br \/>\n<b>82<\/b>:  The score for my first game of bowling last night, being the first sub-100 tally I can remember getting since I first learned to bowl in my youth.<br \/>\n<b>124<\/b>:  The number of pounds I currently weigh.<br \/>\n<b>125<\/b>:  The score for my second game of bowling last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a little better, for no apparent reason. I think it might be good to not leave the house for days at a stretch. Although my haircut is scheduled and isn&#8217;t a home visit. I expect to put some pics up at some point. You should be prepared for my hair to be partying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,10,12,33],"tags":[5,54,56,73],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-lets-go-ms","category-read-it-and-weep","category-the-long-tunnel","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-lets-go-ms","tag-read-it-and-weep","tag-the-long-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}