{"id":2075,"date":"2009-12-21T23:21:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T04:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2009-12-22T02:32:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T07:32:28","slug":"an-alexander-kind-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=2075","title":{"rendered":"an alexander kind of day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not every day can be filled with romping in the snow or reading your favorite novels. Sometimes an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_and_the_Terrible,_Horrible,_No_Good,_Very_Bad_Day\">Alexander<\/a> kind of day comes along, and all you can do is weather it and know that a day only lasts 24 hours, even if sometimes it feels so much longer.<\/p>\n<p>I am not surprised that such a day would occur on the darkest day of the year. 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