{"id":14443,"date":"2009-04-05T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/tweets-on-2009-04-05.html"},"modified":"2009-04-05T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T23:23:00","slug":"tweets-on-2009-04-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/tweets-on-2009-04-05.html","title":{"rendered":"Tweets on 2009-04-05"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"aktt_tweet_digest\">\n<li>Why do National Anthem singers feel compelled to make the it more about their &#8220;creativity&#8221; than their ability to sing the national anthem?  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/three_star_dave\/statuses\/1455552983\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Spent pretty much the whole waking day playing City of Heroes with the wife and watching movies with the daughter.  Not a bad time at all.  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/three_star_dave\/statuses\/1455612971\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I should do taxes today.  But I&#8217;ll be doing bills today instead, which is equally satisfying (and more urgent this weekend).  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/three_star_dave\/statuses\/1457088502\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Local Safeway Grand Reopening. Shouldn&#8217;t have had lunch first &#8211; too many free samples!  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/three_star_dave\/statuses\/1458044573\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do National Anthem singers feel compelled to make the it more about their &#8220;creativity&#8221; than their ability to sing the national anthem? # Spent pretty much the whole waking day playing City of Heroes with the wife and watching movies with the daughter. Not a bad time at all. # I should do taxes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/tweets-on-2009-04-05.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tweets on 2009-04-05&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17625,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/tweets-from-2010-06-17.html","url_meta":{"origin":14443,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2010-06-17","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Jun-10 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Meetings over; lying in wait at MCO for M and K to wander by.#romanticsneak # Checked in at Animal Kingdom Lodge, hanging and relaxing. 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