{"id":20210,"date":"2013-06-05T22:17:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=20210"},"modified":"2013-06-05T22:17:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:17:34","slug":"day-156-the-quickest-of-the-lot-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/05\/day-156-the-quickest-of-the-lot-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 156: The Quickest Of The Lot So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Earth<\/a> has today gone? It certainly doesn&#8217;t seem like 17 and a quarter hours since <em><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Boomtown Rats\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Boomtown_Rats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">The Boomtown Rats<\/a><\/em> were waking me up. <em>(Tell Me Why) <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"I Don't Like Mondays\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Don%27t_Like_Mondays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">I Don&#8217;t Like Mondays<\/a><\/em> is currently the alarm of choice, that cracking piano introduction does wonders to rouse me from my sleep.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Loudmouth_%28The_Boomtown_Rats_album%29_cover.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Loudmouth \u2013 The Best of Bob Geldof &amp; The Boomt...\" alt=\"Loudmouth \u2013 The Best of Bob Geldof &amp; The Boomt...\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Loudmouth_%28The_Boomtown_Rats_album%29_cover.jpeg?resize=600%2C590\" width=\"600\" height=\"590\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loudmouth \u2013 The Best of Bob Geldof &amp; The Boomtown Rats (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The day flew by at work &#8211; the afternoon in particular. I looked up and it was two o&#8217;clock, the next I knew, it was time to let my class leave at three.<\/p>\n<p>The staff meeting may have slowed the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The March of Time\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_March_of_Time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">march of time<\/a> down somewhat, but that was over faster than normal too.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has been the evening where I have suffered most from the ravages of time. I just do not know where it has gone. I have spent all of it marking a series of books, and yet that hasn&#8217;t felt arduous or like it was taking forever at all. Sure, I was watching <em>The Apprentice<\/em> with Mrs Pitts, but that didn&#8217;t distract me much. I&#8217;ve spent no time procrastinating, or on Facebook, or Twitter. I haven&#8217;t been lazy at all. Time has whizzed along, that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>And here I am, at the end of another day. Actually, it&#8217;s not far from the end of the week and that feels odd as well, like it&#8217;s not actually Wednesday at all, but Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>How very strange this time lark is.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/markerpostsandshelters.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/24\/songs-that-haunt-me-i-dont-like-mondays\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/171962568_80_80.jpg?w=1165\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" href=\"http:\/\/markerpostsandshelters.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/24\/songs-that-haunt-me-i-dont-like-mondays\/\" target=\"_blank\">Songs that haunt me &#8211; I don&#8217;t like Mondays<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where on Earth has today gone? It certainly doesn&#8217;t seem like 17 and a quarter hours since The Boomtown Rats were waking me up. (Tell Me Why) I Don&#8217;t Like Mondays is currently the alarm of choice, that cracking piano introduction does wonders to rouse me from my sleep. The day flew by at work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[271,471,486,1082,1394,1475,2026,3017],"class_list":["post-20210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-gibberish","tag-apprentice","tag-bob-geldof","tag-boomtown-rats","tag-facebook","tag-health","tag-i-dont-like-mondays","tag-mondays","tag-time","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-5fY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}