{"id":425,"date":"2004-10-24T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=425"},"modified":"2004-10-24T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T18:34:00","slug":"up-late-thoughtful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Up late, thoughtful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the weekend at my parent&#8217;s place in NoVA.  <\/p>\n<p>Coming home from dinner with old friends on Friday, I grew confused:  Was I in high school coming home after a study \/ social time?  Was I home from college in the Fall and still finding my adult persona?  Was I 24 and settling into working life, on a business trip?  No, in fact.  I&#8217;m 29 and coming home from congratulating the same friend on her impending mommie-ness.  She and her husband have a nice house, good jobs, and a stable life.  It was weird that this particular drive home linked together so many epochs in my life.<\/p>\n<p>It was really good to chill with my family over the weekend.  They all seem to follow this journal, so that&#8217;s enough said about that.  <\/p>\n<p>Visited and admired the home of <a href=\"http:\/\/technolope.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">technolope<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/capital_l.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">capital_l<\/a>.  They were kind enough to share their salmon dinner with me.  <a href=\"http:\/\/technolope.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">technolope<\/a> and even geeked out for a bit with a crazy rendering idea.  All in all, very cool.<\/p>\n<p>And the cream ale turned out just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the weekend at my parent&#8217;s place in NoVA. Coming home from dinner with old friends on Friday, I grew confused: Was I in high school coming home after a study \/ social time? Was I home from college in the Fall and still finding my adult persona? Was I 24 and settling into working [&hellip;]<\/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-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}