{"id":1937,"date":"2016-02-29T22:46:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T02:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2016-05-21T21:08:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T01:08:39","slug":"leap-day-off-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Leap Day Off And Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">I didn&#8217;t leap out of bed because Leap Day fell on a\u00a0Monday this Happy Leap year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The alarm went off at 5:15 AM and and I lie there in the pre-dawn dark thinking about how nice the weekend had been. We had taken\u00a0a road trip\u00a0to the country and stayed with friends. Then I thought about\u00a0 the upcoming week and all the worrisome things that will be resolved by friday like they usually are.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cropped-20160220_172230.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1935\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1935\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cropped-20160220_172230-300x92.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-20160220_172230.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cropped-20160220_172230-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cropped-20160220_172230-768x235.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cropped-20160220_172230.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Something jumped on the bed. In the early morning gloom, I could make out Felix my cat crouching near my head, black eyes dilated, staring\u00a0at me.\u00a0 By daylight, Felix is orange,\u00a0\u00a0in pre-dawn twilight, monochrome grey. He&#8217;s looking at me because he wants food.\u00a0 I reach out to pet him and like lightning, he turns and leaps across the room running for the kitchen and his breakfast.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Leap Day is off and running!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>copyright 2016 Magnus Incognito<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t leap out of bed because Leap Day fell on a\u00a0Monday this Happy Leap year. The alarm went off at 5:15 AM and and I lie there in the pre-dawn dark thinking about how nice the weekend had been. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=1937\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston","tag-leap-year","tag-west-roxbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}