{"id":25,"date":"2013-10-06T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/?p=25"},"modified":"2013-10-16T08:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:59:47","slug":"i-think-i-understand-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"I think I understand now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was unpacking at my new clock tower* Barb L. encouraged me to throw out old clothes. She told me, \u201cA general rule is that if you haven\u2019t worn it in over a year it\u2019s time to let it go.\u201d I went to the closet and pulled out a sweatshirt. I told her, \u201cI use a different rule than you. I bought this 40 years ago last month and I haven\u2019t worn it in at least 20 years. I don\u2019t plan on throwing it away.\u201d She seemed to understand the new rule and there were no further discussions about it. But then a while later she told me, \u201cOkay. I\u2019m going to take a picture of all your hats, gloves, and t-shirts. Then I\u2019m going to post them on your blog and tell everyone to not give you any more.\u201d \u201cWhy?\u201d, I asked. She gave me a look that seemed like she was about to burst into some incredible snark but was exercising extraordinary restraint and said nothing. Women. You are supposed to \u201ccommunicate\u201d with them then they don\u2019t talk even when you ask them questions. Whatever. That was a couple days ago. Today I finished unpacking all my clothes and was thinking about what she had said. I decided I might be able to figure out what she was talking about if I spread the items out and took the picture myself. Here is a picture of some of my hats:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_8731Cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_8731Cropped\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_8731Cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_8731Cropped_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a> I think I understand now. She wants to be the one to give me new hats so I can express genuine pleasure at getting a new one rather than a duplicate of existing one. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>* The view from the Clock Tower at my \u201cneighbors\u201d over two miles away through a 6X scope looks something like this:<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_8733CroppedAdjusted.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_8733CroppedAdjusted\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_8733CroppedAdjusted\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_8733CroppedAdjusted_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was unpacking at my new clock tower* Barb L. encouraged me to throw out old clothes. She told me, \u201cA general rule is that if you haven\u2019t worn it in over a year it\u2019s time to let it go.\u201d I went to the closet and pulled out a sweatshirt. I told her, \u201cI &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/?p=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I think I understand now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barb","category-home"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p418qk-p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehuffman.org\/formaddy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}