{"id":42256,"date":"2026-07-30T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=42256"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:10:58","slug":"no-not-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/07\/no-not-already\/","title":{"rendered":"No, not already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BrownVeins.jpg\" alt=\"distinct veins in fallen brown leaf, likely American sycamore Platanus occidentalis\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-42257\" \/><em>Dipshit<\/em> (I&#8217;m talking to myself &#8211; that&#8217;s what the italics mean. In this case, anyway.) This is <em>not<\/em> the last day of July, so you got the abstracts early, probably before they were ripe, and I apologize. I have no excuse, and should know by now to double-check my senile old brain, since this isn&#8217;t the first time it&#8217;s happened &#8211; it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/05\/yeah-okay-well\/\" target=\"_blank\">not even the first time <em>this year<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus to somehow make it up to you in a way that even I can&#8217;t make any sense of (which is hardly surprising, considering,) I leave you with a semi-abstract that&#8217;s been sitting in the blog folder for literally 12 years &#8211; okay, not <em>literally<\/em>, because it was done in November of 2014, so we&#8217;re a few months shy. Wait, let me run through the month order chant again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <em>elemenopeeee<\/em>&#8230; this is not helping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dipshit (I&#8217;m talking to myself &#8211; that&#8217;s what the italics mean. In this case, anyway.) This is not the last day of July, so you got the abstracts early, probably before they were ripe, and I apologize. I have no excuse, and should know by now to double-check my senile old brain, since this isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1529,2892,3278,8817,2893,8709],"class_list":["post-42256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-abstract","tag-american-sycamore","tag-autumn-leaf","tag-except-after-c-or-sounded","tag-platanus-occidentalis","tag-you-idiot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42259,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42256\/revisions\/42259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}