{"id":20882,"date":"2025-07-03T19:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20882"},"modified":"2025-07-03T19:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:42:53","slug":"post-cataract-patriotic-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20882","title":{"rendered":"Post-cataract patriotic stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney, colorized.\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMbpF_8Pwk4?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>Here I am, <\/strong>in spite of my augurings yesterday, having risen from a bed of pain just to craft a blog post for you. And you alone. (I think that\u2019s about the total size of our readership.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m happy to report that, in spite of my warnings, I do have the ability to read a computer screen, and am capable of posting in a languid, invalid fashion. (I heard that! Somebody said, \u201cHow will that be any different?\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can report, since I know you\u2019ve been holding your breath about it, that my cataract surgery went just fine. Everything looks good. I did not acquire immediate clear vision in my affected eye; they tell me that\u2019ll probably take two or three days in my case. But everything seems to be squared away, ship shape and Bristol fashion. Thank you for your prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow is Independence Day. Hence, I post above the classic movie performance of \u201cYankee Doodle Dandy,\u201d by that noted Norwegian-American actor, James Cagney. (Seriously. His mother\u2019s father was a Norwegian sea captain.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a free and brave Fourth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, in spite of my augurings yesterday, having risen from a bed of pain just to craft a blog post for you. And you alone. (I think that\u2019s about the total size of our readership.) I\u2019m happy to report that, in spite of my warnings, I do have the ability to read a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Post-cataract patriotic stuff<\/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":[9,1],"tags":[5615,5617,5616],"class_list":["post-20882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-uncategorized","tag-cataract-surgery","tag-james-cagney","tag-yankee-doodle-dandy"],"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\/20882","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=20882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20883,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882\/revisions\/20883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}