{"id":331,"date":"2009-05-11T07:41:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2012-02-18T08:20:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T14:20:20","slug":"wouldnt-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/wouldnt-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Wouldn&#8217;t you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orbitz_(soft_drink)\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-337 aligncenter\" title=\"Orbitz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/orbitz-orbitz-drink-656876_480_480-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Orbitz\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/orbitz-orbitz-drink-656876_480_480-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/orbitz-orbitz-drink-656876_480_480-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/orbitz-orbitz-drink-656876_480_480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Orbitz was a drink introduced in 1996.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t take and disappeared from the shelves soon thereafter.\u00a0 I swear I&#8217;ve never seen one in real life.\u00a0 Now take a good look at the bottle on the left, then read the below snippet from my unfinished SF romance masterpiece:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">On the further side of the terrace, a table had been set up for him, under a gazebo tent, with flowers and plates of canapes that were more structurally complex than most sentient creatures. He filled two glasses from a pitcher of spright-of-day, a clear libation with suspended, pearl-sized bubbles of sunfruit juice. He took one glass in hand and drank out of it. The other one he left on the white tablecloth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">She was paralyzed, her <em>dolce<\/em>-dimmed mind failing to interpret his intentions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">He glanced at her. He seemed amused. \u201cWould you prefer something stronger? I have wine and\u201d\u2014he picked up the placard next to a carafe of purple-black tipple and read\u2014\u201c \u2018Guaranteed Good Time. Our version of this classic party favorite is made with premium black vodka, triple distilled sweetwater brandy, lilyplum tonic, and pompear fizz.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">She approached the table and drank from the glass of spright-of-day. A bubble of golden sunfruit juice burst on her tongue, sharp and bright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wouldn&#8217;t you know?\u00a0 They are drinking Orbitz!\u00a0 The future has truly already come and gone.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In other news, PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS is out on audio.\u00a0 You can find it on CDs and cassettes <a href=\"http:\/\/recordedbooks.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=rb.show_prod&amp;prod_id=CZ032\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and as a download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/adbl\/site\/products\/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_RECO_003142&amp;BV_UseBVCookie=Yes\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 And isn&#8217;t the cover just absolutely gorgeous?\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-340\" title=\"private_arrangements_audio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/private_arrangements_audio.jpg\" alt=\"private_arrangements_audio\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/private_arrangements_audio.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/private_arrangements_audio-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Orbitz was a drink introduced in 1996.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t take and disappeared from the shelves soon thereafter.\u00a0 I swear I&#8217;ve never seen one in real life.\u00a0 Now take a good look at the bottle on the left, then read the below snippet from my unfinished SF romance masterpiece:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[32,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}