{"id":143,"date":"2005-05-14T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=143"},"modified":"2010-01-10T23:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T23:25:46","slug":"let%e2%80%99s-get-this-over-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/05\/let%e2%80%99s-get-this-over-with.html","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s get this over with"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">I hope you have all enjoyed my month&#8217;s holiday as much as I have. Just joking! Of course, I don&#8217;t take holidays. Ever. In fact, I&#8217;ve been hard at work parlaying my modest investments into some serious capital, so I cd spin this thriving internet concern into one those hateful yet lucrative insta-bookoids that clog up the shelves by the cash registers at Dymocks. The perfect gift for an infrequently-visited relative or workmate you have no real connection with. A show on Foxtel, too, was not out of the question.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Unfortunately, I had a &#8220;misunderstanding&#8221; with my &#8220;business partners&#8221; over some supposedly &#8220;misappropriated&#8221; funds in &#8220;brown paper bags&#8221; and a &#8220;racehorse&#8221;. Like any bold, forward-looking Australian entrepreneur I have fled the country and moved to London. To be precise, a cosy and modestly-priced bunker in the small, sleepy suburb of Robson Green, NW2.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Home sweet home.\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/room.jpg\" \/><br \/>Within these walls my empire shall rise from the ashes.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Bookworms: the Penguin on my night-table is Milne&#8217;s <em>Mr Pim Passes By<\/em>. The bookmark is a small, creased photograph of <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/04\/heat-of-moment-is-all-that-you-need.html\">Julie Dawn Kemp<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you have all enjoyed my month&#8217;s holiday as much as I have. Just joking! Of course, I don&#8217;t take holidays. Ever. In fact, I&#8217;ve been hard at work parlaying my modest investments into some serious capital, so I cd spin this thriving internet concern into one those hateful yet lucrative insta-bookoids that clog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}