{"id":445,"date":"2009-01-13T22:17:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T02:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/preparations\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T22:17:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T02:17:47","slug":"preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re getting ready. <\/p>\n<p>Okay, we&#8217;re not ready.  But we&#8217;re trying. Like really hard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3527\/3187262766_f5457bc55d.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8220;Inaugural preparations&#8221; by <a href=\"%3Ca%20href=\" http:=\"\" www.flickr.com=\"\" photos=\"\" adamsjp2010=\"\">adamsjp2010<\/a>,published on Flickr.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday during the morning commute there was: a water main break (yah. a. gain) that stranded folks for two hours, a &#8220;suspicious package&#8221; that shut down a Red Line station and part of one of our busiest streets, a train switch malfunction, an &#8220;unexplained&#8221; orange line delay. But still. We&#8217;re trying.<\/p>\n<p>By Tuesday&#8217;s evening commute, one week from the day, I saw this: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a slew of volunteers behind one reflector-laden Metro station attendant, telling them, &#8220;Now this time, of course, we don&#8217;t want them to have to get change or anything, not on Tuesday, right??!&#8221; Chuckles from the Northface-jacketed crowd. No, we don&#8217;t!\n<\/li>\n<li> a memo from my Official U.S. Government Agency Workplace, detailing where I (and the other 3000 or so employees) could and could not park, walk, stand, and loiter.  Yes, you can exit the Security Zone, but no, no you can&#8217;t enter.\n<\/li>\n<li>signs galore  saying &#8220;emergency, no parking, Jan. 19-21.&#8221; Harumph, like the one I had to beg District Two, D.C. Police to give me for my move out  and my tenant&#8217;s move in&#8211; &#8220;sorry, ma&#8217;am, we can&#8217;t give them for two days.&#8221; Guess Obama didn&#8217;t have that problem.\n<\/li>\n<li> and finally, this tip, from &#8220;some guy named me&#8221; who just happens to be my husband to be, who reports that Arlington Alert is warning: prepare for the inauguration like you would for a hurricane. Won&#8217;t we feel stupid, &#8220;some guy&#8221; postures, when the Obamas show up to our house, only to find the windows boarded up and us in hiding, making our signs in case we need a roof escape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are we ready? Not quite. But we&#8217;re trying. Yes we are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re getting ready. Okay, we&#8217;re not ready. But we&#8217;re trying. Like really hard. Photo &#8220;Inaugural preparations&#8221; by adamsjp2010,published on Flickr. Yesterday during the morning commute there was: a water main break (yah. a. gain) that stranded folks for two hours, a &#8220;suspicious package&#8221; that shut down a Red Line station and part of one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[976,165,974,365,399,975,977],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wash","tag-commuting","tag-dc","tag-inauguration","tag-metro","tag-obama","tag-parking","tag-ready"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}