{"id":5772,"date":"2013-03-17T19:46:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T23:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2013-03-17T19:46:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T23:46:04","slug":"sunday-night-pinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/03\/17\/sunday-night-pinch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night \u2013 Pinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Happy St. Patrick&#39;s Day everybody. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpid-Photo-Mar-17-2013-732-PM.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpid-Photo-Mar-17-2013-732-PM.jpg id=blogsy-1363563963816.5032 class=alignnone alt= width=226 height=223><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m about as far as I could be from Irish but everyone is Irish tonight I guess. You know, I always somehow dread Saint Patrick&#39;s Day for a funny reason. When I was Five years old in nursery school, a girl named Monica pinched me <em>really<\/em> hard because I wasn&#39;t wearing green on St. Patrick&#39;s Day. Not only did it hurt quite a bit\u2026 But I was so embarrassed that i did not know this long-standing custom. I tried to explain that I was going to grow up to be a neurotic  New York style Jewish guy, but she explained to me that we were in Texas and everyone was Irish on St. Patrick&#39;s Day.  I was so confused by this that I completely missed the point that she probably liked to me in a nursery school style crush sort of way or she wouldn&#39;t have pinched me in the first place. But I guess that&#39;s just besides the point<\/p>\n<p>That was almost 50 years ago but still as the day approaches I search frantically for green things to wear. I don&#39;t really like green so I don&#39;t have any green clothes. I break out into a cold sweat as the thought of showing up at work wearing something that is not green enough.  <\/p>\n<p>That thought almost  kept me inside all today. But the beautiful weather finally won out and Diane and I went onan ambitious    snowshoe up near bolton mountain. I kept looking over my shoulder wondering if the deer or bear was going to come out and pinch me because despite my best intentions I think I was decked out all in blue.<\/p>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpid-Photo-Mar-17-2013-244-PM.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpid-Photo-Mar-17-2013-244-PM.jpg id=blogsy-1363563963832.1377 class=alignnone alt= width=480 height=640><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpid-Photo-Mar-17-2013-244-PM1.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpid-Photo-Mar-17-2013-244-PM1.jpg id=blogsy-1363563963864.668 class=alignnone width=500 height=667 alt=><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Well&#8230; Hope Everyone is getting their fill of green beer tonight. It&#39;s enchiladas for us and not a speck ofgreen.  Happy st patty&#39;s day everyone.<br \/>\nNight all, night Sam, <\/p>\n<p>\u2013 me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both; id=blogsy_footer><a href=http:\/\/blogsyapp.com target=_blank><img src=http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png alt=Posted with Blogsy style=vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px; width=20 height=20 \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy St. Patrick&#39;s Day everybody. &nbsp; &nbsp; I&#39;m about as far as I could be from Irish but everyone is Irish tonight I guess. You know, I always somehow dread Saint Patrick&#39;s Day for a funny reason. When I was Five years old in nursery school, a girl named Monica pinched me really hard because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/03\/17\/sunday-night-pinch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday night \u2013 Pinch<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}