{"id":302,"date":"2008-10-20T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/302"},"modified":"2008-10-20T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:26:13","slug":"workaholics-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/302","title":{"rendered":"Workaholic's Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><strong>Workaholic's Lament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Tune: Cynthia McQuilin's &quot;The Mermaid's Lament&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alone in my office, I'm watching my screen.<br \/>\nThe cold, empty darkness awaits me outside,<br \/>\nAnd I write my frustration where it goes unseen,<br \/>\nFor none reads the documents I stay to write.<\/p>\n<p>Many offers I've had to go out on a date<br \/>\nBut I've turned them all down and I stayed here late.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI mustn't complain. Oh, my contract is fair:<br \/>\nI get company car, I'm paid more than enough,<br \/>\nWhen I raise new ideas, my boss listens and cares &#8211;<br \/>\nBut he's suddenly deaf when I ask for time off.<\/p>\n<p>Many offers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what normal girl is not better than I,<br \/>\nWho has time for lovers and leisure and rest,<br \/>\nWho knows leaving work while there's light in the sky<br \/>\nAnd has pictures of children to smile from her desk?<\/p>\n<p>Many offers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If I had some sense, I would fly from the scene,<br \/>\nI'd walk every beach, every mall, every park;<br \/>\nBut bound by my contract, I'm tied to my screen,<br \/>\nSo I sit and I work all alone in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Many offers&#8230; <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workaholic's Lament Tune: Cynthia McQuilin's &quot;The Mermaid's Lament&quot; Alone in my office, I'm watching my screen. The cold, empty darkness awaits me outside, And I write my frustration where it goes unseen, For none reads the documents I stay to write. Many offers I've had to go out on a date But I've turned them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}