{"id":201,"date":"2006-03-30T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=201"},"modified":"2006-03-30T21:00:45","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T21:00:45","slug":"the-devil-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2006\/03\/30\/the-devil-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to sound paranoid or anything, but I&#8217;m convinced by this point that the Devil himself has a hand in the events that have occured to me of late.  Just as I was recovering from last week&#8217;s stomach flu, the pestilence migrated up to my respiratory tract to deluge me with heavy congestion and a sore throat.  To make matters worse, even while my laptop is still sitting in the repair shop, my TV suddenly died last night in the middle of a show.  Cut off from my portable and multimedia computers, I figured that at least my trusty desktop workhorse was still in operation.  But only hours after I commented on this, in one of those classic &#8220;spoke too soon&#8221; moments, my internet connection went dead as well.  I was cautious leaving my apartment this morning, feeling as if someone is slowly trying to cut me off from the world, at least electronically.  Until I can pinpoint the nature of such sinister intent, I&#8217;ll have to be extra careful with every step I take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to sound paranoid or anything, but I&#8217;m convinced by this point that the Devil himself has a hand in the events that have occured to me of late. Just as I was recovering from last week&#8217;s stomach flu, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2006\/03\/30\/the-devil-at-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}