{"id":198,"date":"2008-04-21T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T01:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/198"},"modified":"2008-04-21T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T01:22:47","slug":"getting-the-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/198","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/Finger.jpg\"><br \/>\nPortrait of the blogger as a left hand.<\/p>\n<p>One of these five is not like the other.  One of these five just isn&#8217;t the same.  And if you said &#8220;it has a wedding ring,&#8221; you&#8217;re not quite telling the whole story.<\/p>\n<p>I already discussed <a href=\"\/storey\/archives\/196\">how this happened<\/a> from Chicago shortly after the incident.  Believe it or not, it looked much worse at the time, a couple days ago, being predominantly swollen and even greener-purple throughout the whole finger.  At this point, it&#8217;s really just sore and vaguely annoying &#8211; something to avoid bumping into things and to tread lightly on the letters s, w, and x.  It&#8217;s great it&#8217;s healing so rapidly, because I don&#8217;t know what a day at work without being able to type quickly would look like.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to argue with the idea that this was the best trip to Chicago ever, despite the depiction above.  After last post, Fish &#038; I hosted an old-style Nuevo enchilada night with plenty of his student-friend posse and introduced them all to Mafia to cap the evening.  We then went to Shedd Aquarium the next day in what may have been the first time I&#8217;ve hung out with both Fish and fish in over a decade.  Put it this way, though&#8230; if I&#8217;m feeling okay about going to an aquarium in April in Chicago, you know there&#8217;s a certain level of comfort I&#8217;m feeling with my destiny.  You might say I&#8217;m giving fate the finger.  Of course, you might&#8217;ve also said I was asking for it.<\/p>\n<p>There was an earthquake in Chicago, or at least somewhere in Illinois.  That night, both Fish&#8217;s girlfriend and I had dreams about earthquakes, though mine ultimately morphed into some sort of nuclear attack.  Chicago thus joined New York City on the list of places where I have experienced earthquakes that conventionally never get earthquakes.  As the old way of looking at these things goes, I brought them in from California.  Funny that Homeland Security can&#8217;t pick those up on the scanners.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t reckon I&#8217;ll be back there for a spell, though the eight-year gap just past is a pretty wide swath to repeat.  At this point, it may have even passed Glasgow on the all-time list of places in the world.  Maybe next time, Chicago, we don&#8217;t have to shake hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait of the blogger as a left hand. One of these five is not like the other. One of these five just isn&#8217;t the same. And if you said &#8220;it has a wedding ring,&#8221; you&#8217;re not quite telling the whole story. I already discussed how this happened from Chicago shortly after the incident. Believe it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26],"tags":[5,67],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-just-add-photo","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-just-add-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","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=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}