{"id":1042,"date":"2007-10-15T07:12:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T12:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/national-grouch-day\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T12:14:10","slug":"national-grouch-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/national-grouch-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is National Grouch Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/grouches1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='' \"\/style=\"float:left; margin-right: 5px;\" \/>Sheesh, they ought to give a girl a little bit of notice on these things.  According to the Ottawa <em>Citizen<\/em>, today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/news\/story.html?id=4c62d754-3179-4f5a-877b-b96f6b602c13\">National Grouch Day<\/a>.  Had I known, I would have &#8211; erm, well, not baked some cupcakes.  Um, not kissed some kittens.  Uhhhh, well, I would have done something to mark the occasion.  Maybe sucked a few lemons, at least.  (Grouch image courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/muppet.wikia.com\/wiki\/National_Grouch_Day\">Muppet Wiki<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>How often do we get to indulge our inner cranky-pants?  I&#8217;m puffing out my dimples, flattening the laugh lines around my eyes and getting all Oscar today.  Today is all grouchy, all the time. <\/p>\n<p>(And just between you and me?  It has very little to do with National Grouch Day.  In fact, today might be more aptly named Abject Terror Day.  I&#8217;m doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cprsottawa.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/03\/third-tuesday-ottawa-meet-up\/\" target=\"blank\">this <\/a>tonight, and I&#8217;ve got a major case of the performance-anxiety twitchies.)<\/p>\n<p>So, bloggy peeps, I know it&#8217;s a break from the relentless cheeriness of our usual <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/category\/yay-day\/\">Yay Day <\/a>habit, but what the hell.  It&#8217;s National Grouch Day, after all.  Have at it &#8211; grumble, groan, bitch or moan.  What&#8217;s pissing you off today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}