The unmistakable shudder-jangle of Violet doing her morning shake yanked me out of (what I can only suppose now was) a near-comatose state. My eyes slammed open, and I stared at the big, red numbers:<\/p>\n
7:25<\/p>\n
In 0.83 seconds, my mind processed these numbers: It’s 7:25. Students arrive at 7:20. School is 14 minutes away.\u00a0I’m here in my bed in my underpants. MOTHER—why didn’t my alarm go off?<\/em><\/p>\n Then I was in a dead sprint to the kitchen where my phone was plugged in. I yanked the cord out of its butt, and it made that beeboop<\/em> sound, and that’s when I stopped and thought for a second: Out last night for Anna’s birthday… Friday<\/em>\u00a0night…<\/p>\n Today is Saturday.<\/p>\n No matter how relieved you are after that kind of jolt, there’s no going back to sleep. Daggummit.<\/p>\n (Today’s post brought to you by Amy’s House of First-World Problems.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The unmistakable shudder-jangle of Violet doing her morning shake yanked me out of (what I can only suppose now was) a near-comatose state. My eyes slammed open, and I stared at the big, red numbers: 7:25 In 0.83 seconds, my mind processed these numbers: It’s 7:25. Students arrive at 7:20. School is 14 minutes away.\u00a0I’m … Continue reading Good Morning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-world-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}