{"id":654,"date":"2008-11-26T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T22:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2008-11-26T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T22:59:19","slug":"home-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Home for the holidays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited about seeing family for Thanksgiving; Alpha is already home, making gumbo for supper.&nbsp; HWTFM has gone to pick up Beta&#8230; they&#8217;re browsing McKay&#8217;s for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.math.utk.edu\/~denzler\/M247-Sp2009\/247book.txt\">a Calc book<\/a> (for next semester I hope, as opposed to just now thinking about this semester&#8217;s finals).<\/p>\n<p>Gamma&#8217;s gone to swim practice.&nbsp; Delta is busy playing Wii Fit.&nbsp; Uncle PJ and Cousin A are <em>hopefully<\/em> on their way&#8230; Cousin A said yesterday that they expected to be here &quot;Wednesday afternoon.&quot;&nbsp; Given the family history, that means &quot;sometime before Black Friday.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; My husband&#8217;s family are all sort of impervious to time; they don&#8217;t wear watches, they don&#8217;t feel compelled to call if they&#8217;re going to be late.&nbsp; Even days late.<\/p>\n<p>They have actually missed Thanksgiving dinner before, so I&#8217;m prepared to fix a second round if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>My parents have gone to pick up my sister K, and bring her home for Thanksgiving.&nbsp; I would have expected them to be back by now, but so far, nothing.&nbsp; My mother shares the tardiness thing with my husband, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just thankful that I&#8217;m going to be surrounded by people that I love (and still like).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited about seeing family for Thanksgiving; Alpha is already home, making gumbo for supper.&nbsp; HWTFM has gone to pick up Beta&#8230; they&#8217;re browsing McKay&#8217;s for a Calc book (for next semester I hope, as opposed to just now thinking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=654\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}