{"id":3851,"date":"2014-06-05T23:11:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T04:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2014-06-26T18:08:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T23:08:23","slug":"constant-vigilance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=3851","title":{"rendered":"Constant Vigilance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may have learned from Facebook, I opted to actually &#8220;walk&#8221;. That is, to undergo the pomp and pageantry of the graduation ceremony. That means renting a gown, getting tickets, and, the most difficult part, giving my family directions to come down to Indiana. <\/p>\n<p>I also took this once in a lifetime opportunity (hopefully), to take advantage of the $100 I&#8217;m paying to rent black ankle-length robes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dual-light1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/duel-light-tb.png\" alt=\"duel light tb\" width=\"451\" height=\"303\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3856\" title=\"(Polyjuice potion)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/duel-light-tb.png 451w, https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/duel-light-tb-415x278.png 415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we assembled in the Armory, Huy demanded to know, &#8220;Did you bring it?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In a blink, I produced my wand and posed defensively. (No, I had not practiced this&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>How did I do this so quickly? The answer was and had to be&#8230; magic.<\/p>\n<p>Really, it had been concealed the entire time we waited, sheathed along my left forearm. Because when you&#8217;re assailed by a dark wizard (or some crazy person) with Unforgivable Curses, (as Moody reminds us) you must be prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may have learned from Facebook, I opted to actually &#8220;walk&#8221;. That is, to undergo the pomp and pageantry of the graduation ceremony. That means renting a gown, getting tickets, and, the most difficult part, giving my family directions to come down to Indiana. I also took this once in a lifetime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}