{"id":14985,"date":"2024-03-25T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T19:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14985"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:59:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T18:59:22","slug":"spring-breaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14985","title":{"rendered":"Spring Breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note to mention that we are standing down this week for a much-needed Spring Break.<\/p>\n<p>That comes not a moment too soon, as it turns out. Close listeners to <a href=\"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> last week may have noticed my failing voice, as my <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14952\">post-COVID fun<\/a> continues, now featuring a first-time-ever case of laryngitis for me! Doctor&#8217;s order for vocal rest comes at a fortuitous time, as we had hoped to take a break this week anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Both programs will return after the Easter holiday weekend, voice and doctor&#8217;s orders permitting. As noted on our final <i>BradCast<\/i> of last week, it&#8217;s obviously going to be a slow news week this week anyway, right? That&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-civil-fraud-case-verdict-penalty-appeal-8447c48d0436083737204b13401438d2\">already<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-hush-money-trial-new-york-b8fb980a6ec745e918a13e676b7f1460\">proving<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/3\/25\/un-security-council-adopts-resolution-calling-for-immediate-gaza-ceasefire\">to be<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/biden-harris-administration-announces-6-billion-transform-americas-industrial-sector\">the case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As ever, any thoughtful <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\"><b>hits to the tip-jar<\/b><\/a> to help fill the Prius tank are much appreciated, at least until our planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;rct=j&#038;opi=89978449&#038;url=https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/s\/spac.asp&#038;ved=2ahUKEwiV6e7e_Y-FAxU1HUQIHUFkCEsQFnoECB4QAQ&#038;usg=AOvVaw2fHVCaUOyAqYAU3unkHttV\">SPAC<\/a> merger comes through. Should be any day now, given that The BRAD BLOG doesn&#8217;t lose anywhere <i>near<\/i> as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-truth-social-spac-stock-value-djt\/\">Trump&#8217;s Truth Social loses<\/a> every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note to mention that we are standing down this week for a much-needed Spring Break. That comes not a moment too soon, as it turns out. Close listeners to BradCast and Green News Report last week may have noticed my failing voice, as my post-COVID fun continues, now featuring a first-time-ever case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,407],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","category-green-news","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14985"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}