{"id":244,"date":"2003-07-30T22:31:41","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=244"},"modified":"2006-01-28T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T19:02:21","slug":"secret-message-11-macguffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Secret Message #11: MacGuffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you are expecting an Easter Egg today, but I&#8217;m empty. Empty, I tell you. Consider this post a MacGuffin, a total blank of little importance, in my giant Easter Egg hunt.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to post a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/advicegoddess.com\">the advice goddess<\/a> because I&#8217;d read one of her pieces in the paper the other day. Some woman wrote that she was in no way romantically interested in her husband but instead had the hots for Frodo Baggins. I wanted to find that piece on the site but couldn&#8217;t find it. So I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll post a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/advicegoddess.com\">the advice goddess<\/a> after all.<\/p>\n<p>[<b>July 31, 2003 Update:<\/b> Scott, you angel! Thank you for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklyplanet.com\/2003-07-31\/askamy.html\" title=\"What do you do when the one you desire is a hobbit?\">the link I was trying so desperately to find<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>There were a number of other things I could have posted, things about which I could have written, but frankly, I&#8217;m a bit burned out with all this posting-on-deadline kind of thing, and if you don&#8217;t think I actually adhered to any posting deadlines, you obviously weren&#8217;t paying attention to my posting schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m seriously considering a vacation from the internet in August. Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>*Sigh*<\/p>\n<p>You know what? 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