{"id":1466,"date":"2003-06-16T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2003-06-16T15:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2003-06-16T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2003-06-16T15:44:28","slug":"monday-mallard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"Monday Mallard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duck was still there on the way in&#8230; Head tucked under wing, napping behind the decorative shrubbery.  Wish I could relax like that.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t sleep well last night.  We&#8217;re in the throes of the June heat fluctuations, where it&#8217;s too warm at bedtime to wrap up in quilts and too cool at night to not have the blankets&#8230;  Add the general imbalance in body temperatures between my Fiancee and me and it&#8217;s like a rotisserie over a campfire in the winter.  I have to keep spinning in the bed to keep thawing one side while the other side freezes.  It&#8217;s a lot of effort to keep from cooking unevenly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At certain points when I stick in mid-spin, I start to snore.  This doesn&#8217;t last long&#8230;  A gentle elbow in the ribs is enough to nudge me back into rotation.  In that respect, I guess I&#8217;m like a squeaky door hinge.  If you open the door slowly it makes a horrifying noise, but if you keep it moving quickly, it&#8217;s hardly noticeable.  Keep me spinning and the snoring stops.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I only seem to spin clockwise&#8230;  (&#8220;I can&#8217;t turn left!&#8221; &#8211; Zoolander)  This means that the sheets try to wrap around me like a windowshade.  I&#8217;m pretty good at sharing the top sheet, but eventually my torque will overcome the strength of the elastic holding down the bottom sheet and the mattress pad.  I figure that if you could hook me up to a generator, I could probably provide a nice steady current in my sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duck was still there on the way in&#8230; Head tucked under wing, napping behind the decorative shrubbery. Wish I could relax like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}