{"id":3345,"date":"2008-09-30T15:17:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2008-09-30T15:17:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T19:17:44","slug":"shot-craps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=3345","title":{"rendered":"Shot Craps"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a story I couldn't be less interested in, I nonetheless found something interesting:<\/p>\n

AP: Tom Dimmock<\/a> can't afford to be that leisurely. After more than a week trapped on the Illinois River, the 59-year-old retired lawyer from Raleigh, N.C., and his wife have a flight to catch Tuesday out of St. Louis. The couple will leave their 46-foot powerboat docked in Missouri for the next couple of weeks, then eventually fly back to resume their adventure.<\/p>\n

By Monday afternoon, the battery on Dimmock's cell phone had just about shot craps<\/strong>. But he had enough time through the crackling reception to tell a reporter what he thought about getting the green light to shove off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"shot craps\" ? I've never heard that phrase used as a way to say \"died\" or \"kicked the bucket\" or \"bit the dust\", etc.. Is it a regional thing ? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a story I couldn't be less interested in, I nonetheless found something interesting: AP: Tom Dimmock can't afford to be that leisurely. After more than a week trapped on the Illinois River, the 59-year-old retired lawyer from Raleigh, N.C., and his wife have a flight to catch Tuesday out of St. Louis. The couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}