{"id":472,"date":"2016-10-02T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=472"},"modified":"2016-10-02T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T19:40:49","slug":"random-musings-for-a-rainy-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Drunken sailors and other random musings for a rainy Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Readers&#8217; Favorite <span class=\"gray-text-underline\"><span class=\"green-text3\">2016 International Book Award<\/span><\/span>s were announced yesterday. <em>Once in a Blue Year<\/em> was a finalist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/readersfavorite.com\/book-review\/once-in-a-blue-year\">Fiction-Military category<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home for Peculiar Children was excellent, and I&#8217;m not generally a fan of Burton&#8217;s films. It was creative, intriguing, and thoroughly entertaining. Highly recommended.<\/li>\n<li>What was the Navy thinking when it got rid of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/articles\/the-navy-dumped-its-time-honored-job-titles-and-the-decision-incites-widespread-outrage\"> job titles<\/a>? I was always proud to be a Machinist&#8217;s Mate even though my actual job didn&#8217;t require machining. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-478 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mm1.jpg\" alt=\"mm1\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mm1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mm1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>was a traditional rating with a long history.<\/li>\n<li>I am so very glad that hockey season begins in 11 days. Let&#8217;s go Pens!<\/li>\n<li>I encountered no less than three people texting and driving this weekend, and I still haven&#8217;t figured out a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/2016\/05\/how-can-i-legally-stop-someone-from-texting-and-driving\/\">legally retaliate<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For some reason, I really miss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/2016\/07\/vegas-marathon\/\">Vegas<\/a> today. Well, I guess I miss Vegas a little at some point every day.<\/li>\n<li>How&#8217;s this for a story of drunken sailor debauchery?<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/549642\/royal-navy-trident-submarine-faslane-clyde-drunken-sailors-allegations\">Going overboard: Bar and cinema trashed by &#8216;drunken Royal Navy officers&#8217;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/549642\/royal-navy-trident-submarine-faslane-clyde-drunken-sailors-allegations\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/659356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=durk13\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Readers&#8217; Favorite 2016 International Book Awards were announced yesterday. Once in a Blue Year was a finalist in the Fiction-Military category! Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home for Peculiar Children was excellent, and I&#8217;m not generally a fan of Burton&#8217;s films. It was creative, intriguing, and thoroughly entertaining. Highly recommended. What was the Navy thinking when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drunken-sailors","category-miscellany-entertainment","category-musings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}