{"id":6184,"date":"2021-11-30T20:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T02:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2025-01-01T03:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T09:49:03","slug":"roll-down-the-smoke-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2021\/11\/30\/roll-down-the-smoke-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll down the smoke screen…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week 88…?…89…?…???<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Whatever it’s November 30th.<\/p>\n

We have two more days to get through this week and then we’re on vacation for ten days. We were supposed to be on vacation the whole week of Thanksgiving, but the launch of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker<\/a><\/i><\/b> got delayed by two weeks so here we are.<\/p>\n

In the meantime it’s just listening to questionable playlists on repeat and indulging Basil<\/a><\/b> with all his latest WHATIF<\/i>-ing.<\/p>\n

He seems to think eighty-five thousand words is a good time to make major plot changes.<\/p>\n

Because why not?<\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

Quit your WHAT-If-ING<\/i><\/b> and go fetch the Last.fm<\/i> stats.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Top 10 Most Played Artists for October 2021…<\/b><\/p>\n

1.)<\/b> Darren Criss …<\/b> 450 plays<\/p>\n

2.)<\/b> Brandon Flowers …<\/b> 322 plays<\/p>\n

3.)<\/b> Billy Joel …<\/b> 198 plays<\/p>\n

4.)<\/b> Toad the Wet Sprocket …<\/b> 198 plays<\/p>\n

5.)<\/b> The Killers …<\/b> 182 plays<\/p>\n

6.)<\/b> Matt Nathanson …<\/b> 162 plays<\/p>\n

7.)<\/b> I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME …<\/b> 154 plays<\/p>\n

8.)<\/b> Sara Bareilles …<\/b> 150 plays<\/p>\n

9.)<\/b> Jimmy Stafford …<\/b> 133 plays<\/p>\n

10.)<\/b> Splender …<\/b> 130 plays<\/p>\n

Honorable mention:<\/b> The Young Veins, Tonic, The Fray, Panic! At the Disco, Gavin DeGraw, Nine Days, Ingram Hill, Parachute, 2AM Club, Gin Blossoms, O.A.R., Emerson Hart<\/p>\n

Total of 2,884<\/b> plays of 910<\/b> tracks from 105<\/b> albums by 23<\/b> artists.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/td>\nSweet Talk
\nThe Killers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week 88…?…89…?…??? Whatever it’s November 30th. We have two more days to get through this week and then we’re on vacation for ten days. We were supposed to be on vacation the whole week of Thanksgiving, but the launch of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker got delayed by two weeks so here we are. In the meantime it’s just listening to questionable playlists on repeat and indulging Basil with all his latest WHATIF-ing. He seems to… Keep reading…Roll down the smoke screen…<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2021pics\/wicked85000.png","fifu_image_alt":"Eighty-five thousand words...","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,135,209],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-im-about-to-start-hucking-rocks-at-people","category-last-fm","category-life-in-a-global-pandemic","tag-216","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2021pics\/wicked85000.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}