{"id":286,"date":"2008-08-02T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2021-03-17T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T03:37:25","slug":"dear-blue-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/02\/dear-blue-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Blue Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not that I don’t love inhaling jet exhaust, or gratuitous displays of military might, or testosterone charged military service recruiting sessions , or even the opportunity to have my tax dollars go towards consuming extra barrels of oil so Exxon can top their record earnings from last quarter – it’s the fact that I have to wear earplugs in my own house and even still my dishes and glasses have been rattling for three days. I’m tired and cranky and I’d like to take a nap, thank you.
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It’s not that I don’t love inhaling jet exhaust, or gratuitous displays of military might, or testosterone charged military service recruiting sessions , or even the opportunity to have my tax dollars go towards consuming extra barrels of oil so Exxon can top their record earnings from last quarter – it’s the fact that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[762],"tags":[712,710,711,55],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life-living-well","tag-air-pollution","tag-blue-angels","tag-military","tag-whine","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"762":{"name":"Daily Life","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/living-well\/daily-life-living-well\/"}},"tags_names":{"712":{"name":"air pollution","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/air-pollution\/"},"710":{"name":"blue angels","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/blue-angels\/"},"711":{"name":"military","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/military\/"},"55":{"name":"whine","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/whine\/"}},"comments_number":0,"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fDeG-4C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21,"url":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/05\/blue-angels\/","url_meta":{"origin":286,"position":0},"title":"Blue Angels","author":"Judy Schwartz Haley","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"I was driving back to the office on my lunch break and had completely forgotten that the Blue Angels were performing today until I saw one do a full loop that took up my entire field of vision. 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