{"id":167,"date":"2005-03-08T06:55:32","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T06:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2005\/03\/08\/the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch-week-9\/"},"modified":"2005-03-08T06:55:32","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T06:55:32","slug":"the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2005\/03\/08\/the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week 9 and and we&#8217;re hard-charging through the Zone&#8230; Despite the relative quiet on the blog this last week, I count around 14-15 people out on the trail. Not bad at all&#8230;.<br \/>\nSpeaking of quiet, we&#8217;re suddenly down to only around five or six folks qualified for Grand Poobah mug status. And here I am, still flush with the irresistible urge to fling GRDM mugs across the country when this is all over. And so I&#8217;ve arbitrarily decided to modify the rules of this experiment thusly: Both <a href = \"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/swath\/2004\/12\/21\/the_gravitys_rainbow_deathmarch_prizes_revealed.html\"><b>Grand Poobahs and Big Poobahs<\/a><\/b> will qualify for mugness. In other words, it&#8217;s a a thin slice of general amnesty &#8212; them what may have missed commenting a week or two, there&#8217;s still a way for us to get you into that mug. (So what&#8217;s the difference now, you may ask, between Grand and Big Poobah status? Well, for one, Grand Poobahs will find it surprisingly easy to get restaurant reservations at hot spots all around town.)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trailing our target by around 20 or 30 pages &#8212; got to page 404 (v) last night. Still swooning from the opening Rocket Man\/Potsdam sequences. And now remaining pages are starting to get thinner than pages read. And I&#8217;m starting to think about how I&#8217;ll miss you, you old sonuvabitch.<br \/>\nNext week: Meetcha at page 482 (v), you know &#8212; over by the &#8220;glowing black mudslide of nausea&#8230;&#8221; -CV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 9 and and we&#8217;re hard-charging through the Zone&#8230; Despite the relative quiet on the blog this last week, I count around 14-15 people out on the trail. Not bad at all&#8230;. Speaking of quiet, we&#8217;re suddenly down to only around five or six folks qualified for Grand Poobah mug status. And here I am, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archiveddms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}