{"id":12566,"date":"2013-03-25T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12566"},"modified":"2013-03-25T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T17:00:24","slug":"like-a-plumber-every-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/like-a-plumber-every-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Plumber Every Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I told my wife I was going to make my toilet.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I make my beautiful wife gape, and today was one such time.  &#8220;What?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;d never heard the expression before, but that&#8217;s because she doesn&#8217;t read early 20th century detective novels.  Did I get that expression from Agatha Christie or Ellery Queen?  I forget.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>make one&#8217;s toilet<\/em> does not refer to building a commode nor even to installing a commode and tank.  Instead, it refers to shaving, washing up, and brushing one&#8217;s teeth in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Even my own generation doesn&#8217;t understand me.  Truly, I am a man out of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I told my wife I was going to make my toilet. Sometimes, I make my beautiful wife gape, and today was one such time. &#8220;What?&#8221; she asked. She&#8217;d never heard the expression before, but that&#8217;s because she doesn&#8217;t read early 20th century detective novels. Did I get that expression from Agatha Christie or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12573,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions\/12573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}