{"id":3116,"date":"2010-04-03T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2017-09-21T19:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:03:52","slug":"that-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2010\/04\/03\/that-time-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"That Time of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year.  I have an appointment with my accountant on Wednesday, so I am doing my taxes.  Or more precisely, preparing my taxes so my accountant can do them.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you call it, I am drowning in little bits of paper.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t actually mind paying taxes.  I recognize that taxes are the price of civilization, that they pay for many things I value and would be loathe to do without.<\/p>\n<p>But I hate DOING taxes.  I hate receipts, and 1099s, and W-2s and W-3s, and adding up everything six times in hopes they finally match, and searching for that hotel bill from that con last February it&#8217;s got to me in their somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>mutter mutter mutter<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t get me going on ESTIMATED taxes.  A unique treat reserved for us self-employed.<\/p>\n<p>mutter mutter mutter <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year. I have an appointment with my accountant on Wednesday, so I am doing my taxes. Or more precisely, preparing my taxes so my accountant can do them. Whatever you call it, I am drowning in little bits of paper. I don&#8217;t actually mind paying taxes. I recognize that taxes are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}