{"id":16351,"date":"2022-02-03T19:36:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T00:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16351"},"modified":"2022-02-03T19:36:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T00:36:06","slug":"medieval-help-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16351","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Medieval help desk&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Medieval helpdesk with English subtitles\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQHX-SjgQvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The video above<\/strong> is quite old now, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever shared it here. Fits our topic, and it\u2019s in my wheelhouse, too, as the language is Norwegian. It comes from the Norwegian national broadcast service. If you\u2019ve never seen it before, it\u2019s pretty clever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today was another of those clear, bright, bitter cold days in Minneapolis. I\u2019ve mentioned the word \u201c<em>apricity<\/em>\u201d before \u2013 it means the warmth you feel when the sun shines on you, warming you a little on one of these polar days. This was an apricitous day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went to the gym (8 below) and then went to my tax preparer (about zero). Those two things are the sum of my achievements thus far, but I still felt worn out. Taxes will do that to you. My return is on hold, since it turned out a couple forms I need haven\u2019t arrived in the mail yet. Next year I need to make a later appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I\u2019ll try to work on the novel. This thing is kicking my fundament. Every time I do a revision, I find more that needs fixing. I just discovered that in one story line, I put an effect ahead of a cause. This will have to be fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think it\u2019s a good story, but it\u2019s like a black hole. I like to think the book is smarter than I am, and I just need time to catch up with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video above is quite old now, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever shared it here. Fits our topic, and it\u2019s in my wheelhouse, too, as the language is Norwegian. It comes from the Norwegian national broadcast service. If you\u2019ve never seen it before, it\u2019s pretty clever. Today was another of those clear, bright, bitter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Medieval help desk&#8217;<\/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":[8,17],"tags":[4049,4048,3612],"class_list":["post-16351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goofing","category-writing","tag-apricity","tag-medieval-help-desk","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351","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=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16353,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions\/16353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}