{"id":638,"date":"2008-03-24T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T09:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=638"},"modified":"2008-03-24T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T09:16:23","slug":"638","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/03\/24\/638\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-weight: bold;\" size=\"4\">From the weekend&#8230;<br \/><\/font><br \/>My husband challenged me the other day to focus more on the light-hearted or upbeat realities of life, instead of always spending time on the &#8220;deep, dark, mentally-challenging&#8221; ones.&nbsp; So, in homage to Eric, here are some of this weekend&#8217;s interesting items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric still has his soul patch.&nbsp; It still looks a little odd on him, but we decided that&#8217;s because his haircut is too &#8220;normal.&#8221;&nbsp; If he went spiky, then he&#8217;d look totally &#8216;with it&#8217;!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday night we hung out with my parents over at Karen&#8217;s.&nbsp; Karen &amp; Erik were there, too.&nbsp; Jason was keeping my parents pretty entertained with smiles that might actually have been smiles, instead of gas. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/silly.gif\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We drove out to the farm on Saturday afternoon. Pam gave me a basket of primroses for an Easter gift (the boys got candy).&nbsp; Eric grilled filet mignon for us for dinner (they&#8217;d just butchered a huge bull!), and we sat around the table after dinner, laughing and telling stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We were late to the sunrise service because the clocks weren&#8217;t right in our bedroom.&nbsp; Oops! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/laughing.gif\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Easter services were good, though the music leaders at my in-laws small, country church remind us just a bit too much of The Culps (Will Ferrell\/Ana Gasteyer characters from SNL), complete with a drum machine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve never sung &#8220;Celebrate, Jesus, Celebrate&#8221; with a drum machine before. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/whatevah.gif\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We drove home in the early evening and spent the evening relaxing on the couch.&nbsp; We were in bed by 9:30 and slept in this morning until 7:30.&nbsp; So nice!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the brief recap.&nbsp; Today I have a number of little things to get to, including some errands.&nbsp; Eric left for work just a few minutes ago, so now I can start to figure out how to fill my day!&nbsp; Happy Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the weekend&#8230;My husband challenged me the other day to focus more on the light-hearted or upbeat realities of life, instead of always spending time on the &#8220;deep, dark, mentally-challenging&#8221; ones.&nbsp; So, in homage to Eric, here are some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/03\/24\/638\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}