{"id":1292,"date":"2007-12-18T19:07:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2007-12-18T19:07:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T00:07:41","slug":"thoughts-from-sniffleheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from Sniffleheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All things considered, today was an improvement.<\/strong> I feel marginally better than yesterday. The Cold From&#8230; well, I&#8217;ll say Sniffleheim, which is a pun on the name of a bad place in Norse mythology that you probably wouldn&#8217;t recognize, seems to be retreating at last. And I stopped at a body shop after work to get an estimate on my bumper. They offered to let one of the technicians reattach it with a couple screws as a \u201cside job,\u201d and I got away for twenty bucks, which the girl who did the damage has promised to send me.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Veith, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/\">Cranach<\/a>, makes the sad announcement that the <i>Luther At the Movies<\/i> blog has been put to bed forever. However, Dr. Luther\u2019s \u201cmiserable, execrable assistant,\u201d Anthony Sacramone, has joined the blogging stable at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blog\/\">First Things<\/a>, so that\u2019s some consolation.<\/p>\n<p>He does a gorgeous takedown of <i>The Golden Compass <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/final-thoughts-on-the-compass-rumpus\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All things considered, today was an improvement. I feel marginally better than yesterday. The Cold From&#8230; well, I&#8217;ll say Sniffleheim, which is a pun on the name of a bad place in Norse mythology that you probably wouldn&#8217;t recognize, seems to be retreating at last. And I stopped at a body shop after work to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts from Sniffleheim<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}