{"id":639,"date":"2002-12-06T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-06T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/12\/06\/drab-winter-mornings\/"},"modified":"2002-12-06T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-06T09:36:00","slug":"drab-winter-mornings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/12\/06\/drab-winter-mornings\/","title":{"rendered":"Drab winter mornings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drab, cold, dark winter morning this morning has really got me a bit down int he dumps today. I have no enthusiasm for anything. I found it very hard to get out of bed or convince my body that it was anything other than nighttime.<\/p>\n<p>My social life is pretty much in a waiting pattern again with the light at the end of the tunnel being a probable visit to Rachel, Graham &#038; Chistopher next weekend, the dept. Christmas party in a little under two weeks and (hopefully) going to see The Two Towers in a fortnight, if I manage to book tickets for it today.<\/p>\n<p>Life seems so grey when the weather&#8217;s grey.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this weekend I can pre-occupy myself with getting my main computer set up as a mail hub. I understand now that I have to ask Nildram to check that my machine won&#8217;t be an open mail relay before they allow access. However, it does seem strange that they allow SMTP connections in, they just don&#8217;t allow the ACK packets out. I managed to inject some mail into my system from outside last night by guessing what the program wanted even if there was no reply, so their firewalling seems a bit flawed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drab, cold, dark winter morning this morning has really got me a bit down int he dumps today. I have no enthusiasm for anything. I found it very hard to get out of bed or convince my body that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/12\/06\/drab-winter-mornings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}