{"id":612,"date":"2012-12-19T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T21:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=612"},"modified":"2012-12-19T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T21:13:12","slug":"the-twelfth-day-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"The Twelfth Day of Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RAMFNLclr-121212-fiscal-cli.jpg.cms_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RAMFNLclr-121212-fiscal-cli.jpg.cms_-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"RAMFNLclr-121212-fiscal-cli.jpg.cms\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RAMFNLclr-121212-fiscal-cli.jpg.cms_-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RAMFNLclr-121212-fiscal-cli.jpg.cms_-437x300.jpg 437w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RAMFNLclr-121212-fiscal-cli.jpg.cms_.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, as you can see from the counter over on the right, it&#8217;s 12 days left until we reach the Cliff.  The Abyss&#8230;the maelstrom of financial and psychological misery.  And where are we?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s recap a bit.  First and foremost, apparently the investment world had a lot more faith (delusion) than me, because the DOW is a smidge away from its 52 week high.  So much for panic!<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, in spite of commentary from both sides and the usual Lucy\/football\/Charlie Brown stunt on the part of the Republican leadership, we are nowhere close to an agreement.  So, just for fun, we&#8217;ll play The Twelve Days of Christmas game between now and doomsday (which, by the way, is actually scheduled for two days&#8217; hence, if memory serves&#8230;???<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s begin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/the-twelve-days-of-christmas.mid'>the-twelve-days-of-christmas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve had enuf of that musical interlude, recall the first verse:<\/p>\n<p>On the First Day of Christmas,<br \/>\nMy True Love Gave to Me&#8230;<br \/>\nA Partridge in a Pear Tree&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A bird and a tree&#8230;well, gentle readers, it&#8217;s you and I that are getting the bird &#8211; the third digit of the upraised hand &#8211; but reality is if there&#8217;s no deal we&#8217;ll all be up a tree&#8230;stranded without even an umbrella to break the fall&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The world is watching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as you can see from the counter over on the right, it&#8217;s 12 days left until we reach the Cliff. The Abyss&#8230;the maelstrom of financial and psychological misery. And where are we? Well, let&#8217;s recap a bit. First and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=612\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}