{"id":197,"date":"2004-12-03T19:28:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-04T00:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=197"},"modified":"2015-02-24T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:47:08","slug":"and-its-friday-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"And it&#8217;s Friday, so&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through the archives I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=54\">remembered <i>every<\/i> Christmas is like this<\/a>.  Too much to do, too little time and too little staff to accomplish it.  The body forgets.  It&#8217;s the triumphs of the season&#8211;the happy kids, the satisfied parents&#8211;that stick in memory, not the bleak moments.<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes I wonder how I made it through Christmas when I managed a store in the mall, never seeing the sky during December.<\/p>\n<p>My staff thought I looked upset today.  No, I wasn&#8217;t.  Half-mad?  Maybe.  Preoccupied?  Certainly.  Spinning plates?  Without a doubt.  But upset?  Absolutely not.  I wasn&#8217;t <i>throwing<\/i> things.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a problem to this Christmas as compared to others, it&#8217;s that I feel rather alone and adrift.  I feel as though I have no one in whom to confide.  No one in whom to vent life&#8217;s foibles and frustrations.  It&#8217;s cliche to say this, but it&#8217;s lonely at the top.  As Captain Miller said in <i>Saving Private Ryan<\/i>, &#8220;Complaints go up, not down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The backroom looks better than it has in a while.  It <i>still<\/i> doesn&#8217;t look great, but it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through the archives I remembered every Christmas is like this. Too much to do, too little time and too little staff to accomplish it. The body forgets. It&#8217;s the triumphs of the season&#8211;the happy kids, the satisfied parents&#8211;that stick in memory, not the bleak moments. And sometimes I wonder how I made it through<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=197\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;And it&#8217;s Friday, so&#8230;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[64,4093,4124],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-christmas","tag-life","tag-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}