{"id":984,"date":"2020-08-24T15:36:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T22:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=984"},"modified":"2020-08-24T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T22:38:19","slug":"24th-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2020\/08\/24th-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"24th August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Feeling:<\/strong>\u00a0Slightly under the weather<\/li><li><strong>Listening to:<\/strong>\u00a0Nothing today<\/li><li><strong>Watching<\/strong>:\u00a0Cursed<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Not felt 100% today &#8211; just a bit drained and a headache on and off through the day. Week days seem very &#8220;samey&#8221; right now and when I sit down to write a blog post in the evening I&#8217;m left feeling I&#8217;ve not done much and I don&#8217;t really know what anyone else has been doing \ud83d\ude41 In just over a week the kids will be back at school, which will be a big change I guess &#8211; I&#8217;m expecting to miss them once they are not in the house all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F was persuaded by D to find some non-computer things to do today &#8211; so she did some lovely colouring and painting this morning and planned out some activities for the rest of the week &#8211; tomorrow is a &#8220;reading day&#8221; and she&#8217;s going to try <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Book_of_Three\">The Book of Three<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterbunzl.com\/books\/cogheart\/\">Cogheart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B was doing some more animation\/special effects in the morning, but in the afternoon inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9KABcmczPdg\">a Matt Parker video about a game called Dr Nim<\/a> he decided to try to recreate the game using our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turingtumble.com\">Turing Tumble<\/a> (a marble powered computer). He roped F into this as well and they tried to work it out together although so far without success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9382-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-985\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9382-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9382-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9382-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9382-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9382-800x1067.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9382-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile in the garden D continues to have success with flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-instagram wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CERYjm_nSsi\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay safe, stay strong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling:\u00a0Slightly under the weather Listening to:\u00a0Nothing today Watching:\u00a0Cursed Not felt 100% today &#8211; just a bit drained and a headache on and off through the day. Week days seem very &#8220;samey&#8221; right now and when I sit down to write a blog post in the evening I&#8217;m left feeling I&#8217;ve not done much and I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[19,31],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-covid19","tag-easing_lockdown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}