{"id":1771,"date":"2012-10-29T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/29\/the-saddest-thing-in-the-world-and-a-status-update"},"modified":"2012-10-29T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T13:26:00","slug":"the-saddest-thing-in-the-world-and-a-status-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=1771","title":{"rendered":"The Saddest Thing In The World, and a status update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers got swept by the Giants in the World Series. I don&#8217;t know if I can accurately convey what it feels like to be a Detroit baseball fan right now, so just go drop something big and heavy on your foot. And then directly onto your barely beating broken heart. Then you&#8217;ll have a way to empathize with the walking wounded in Michigan this morning.<\/p>\n<p>To add to the sadness, this morning a story broke about the ice buckets holding the Giants&#8217; victory champagne. In the confusion of screaming and happiness that Tigers fans and stadium staff are frankly not used to, the &#8220;hooray, the Tigers won!&#8221; party favors got accidentally passed out to the Giants. I warn you, what you are about to see will make you sob great heaping bucketfuls of tears. I mean, I assume. Everyone else feels like they just got kicked in the vag, right?<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/saddestthingever.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/147dd-saddestthingever.jpeg\" width=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>See the whole story\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/mlb-big-league-stew\/detroit-tigers-world-series-champions-bucket-finds-way-081320981--mlb.html\">at Yahoo!<\/a>, including the part where the Giants just didn&#8217;t give a shit, because hey. World Series champions.<\/p>\n<p>As for my to-do list, things are getting more manageable!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strike>I&#8217;ll be shilling wreaths for another school fundraiser.<\/strike>\u00a0<span style=\"color:red;\">I&#8217;ve just straight given up on this one. I don&#8217;t even know where the order forms are it doesn&#8217;t matter, pick up is on a day when I couldn&#8217;t fill the orders, anyway! GET OUT OF WREATH JAIL FREE!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strike>Pumpkins must be carved.<\/strike>\u00a0<span style=\"color:red;\">Carved. Like a boss. I&#8217;ll post pictures eventually.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be volunteering at my daughter&#8217;s preschool on two days.<\/li>\n<li>One of those is her birthday. This necessitates cupcakes at school and a cake at home.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll need to take her to get her school picture retaken, as well.<\/li>\n<li><strike>100 bags and 100 folders need to be filled with various authors&#8217; promo for the Ready, Set, Write! conference.<\/strike><span style=\"color:red;\">\u00a0As I type this, help is arriving at my doorstep to get the bags filled.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Still on the conference committee.<\/li>\n<li>Still the president.<\/li>\n<li>Still need to give a speech.<\/li>\n<li>Need to go over my presentation, write where necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Bring snack to my son&#8217;s scout meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>Things are shaping up. Now I need to go briefly sob in the corner and set my sights on April.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers got swept by the Giants in the World Series. I don&#8217;t know if I can accurately convey what it feels like to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=1771\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Saddest Thing In The World, and a status update<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}