{"id":1827,"date":"2011-09-07T18:55:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T22:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2011-09-07T18:55:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T22:55:41","slug":"lord-love-a-duck-its-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/lord-love-a-duck-its-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Love A Duck &#8211; It&#8217;s Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We've made it over the hump in a short week.\u00a0 If\u00a0I perch on my tippytoes I can just make out the weekend - getting closer every second.<\/p>\n<p>Why are short weeks so much busier than long weeks?\u00a0 Crises and deadlines wait for the short weeks.\u00a0 I picture them behaving a little like the faeries in some of my historicals - plotting to pop in at the very worst time.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of our having made it over the hump, I give you a link to the movie - Lord Love A Duck.\u00a0\u00a0And yeah, there's even a quacking duck in the theme song. I've already asked my DH to download the song on the USB stick. It's full of oldies from the real era of music - the 70s to the 80s. I boogle down the road in my little red PT Cruiser, bopping to the beat of the same music that inspires my muse.<\/p>\n<p>This movie has Roddy McDowell and Tuesday Weld. Can't believe I'd never heard of it before!\u00a0\u00a0But any movie smart enough to pay tribute to ducks in its title and theme song gets my vote.\u00a0 I'll\u00a0have to watch\u00a0the whole thing - sometime.\u00a0 I stay pretty busy between the full time day job and the writing that is trying to grow up into a full time job.<\/p>\n<p>So, without further ado -\u00a0turn up your speakers and click for :\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kPFmBsvNxDU\" target=\"_blank\">Lord Love A Duck<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We've made it over the hump in a short week.\u00a0 If\u00a0I perch on my tippytoes I can just make out the weekend - getting closer every second. Why are short weeks so much busier than long weeks?\u00a0 Crises and deadlines wait for the short weeks.\u00a0 I picture them behaving a little like the faeries in <a href=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/lord-love-a-duck-its-wednesday\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Lord Love A Duck &#8211; It&#8217;s Wednesday\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}