{"id":117,"date":"2002-06-29T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-30T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=117"},"modified":"2002-06-29T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-30T04:30:00","slug":"the-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/the-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/062902a.jpg',450,601)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/062902a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=\"425\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a>Oh man, life can be cruel. Today I&#8217;ve been packing and getting ready for the big move to New Zealand on Monday. All afternoon this fly was buzzing around my house, so I finally decided to give it a break and try and show it the door. Ya know, why not, they only have a short little life span. Anyway I go over to the lamp it&#8217;s buzzing around and try and shoo it away. It keeps avoiding me and I&#8217;m about to kill the thing when just then I swat at it again. I accidently hit the lamp and it tilts to the side and the dumb fly goes right for lamps ledge that was tilted up. Oh man. You stupid, stupid, little fly, I was trying to help you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m moving to Wellington, New Zealand until the end of the year to work on Lord Of The Rings. I&#8217;m keeping my place in L.A. since it was kind of last minute and I really like where I live. They&#8217;re providing me a place to live and a car for the duration. So financially it&#8217;s not really any different on the bills side of things. Actually a bit better. I&#8217;ve got everything on auto pilot while I&#8217;m gone. All my bills can be paid automatically or by phone and the rent is taken out of my checking account.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, life can be cruel. Today I&#8217;ve been packing and getting ready for the big move to New Zealand on Monday. All afternoon this fly was buzzing around my house, so I finally decided to give it a break and try and show it the door. Ya know, why not, they only have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}