{"id":138818,"date":"2019-05-20T17:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T23:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138818"},"modified":"2019-05-20T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T23:59:39","slug":"welcome-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/welcome-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Picked up The Boy at the airport, home from college. Thoughtfully wore MOM and DAD name tags, and held up a SON placard, just in case he didn&#39;t recognize us. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UrrF7EKnJO\">pic.twitter.com\/UrrF7EKnJO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1130338922913906688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Picked up The Boy at the airport, home from college. Thoughtfully wore MOM and DAD name tags, and held up a SON placard, just in case he didn&#8217;t recognize us. https:\/\/t.co\/UrrF7EKnJO<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remarkably enough, he was willing to actually acknowledge recognizing us.<\/p>\n<p>We also drew a\u00a0<em>lot\u00a0<\/em>of smiles from folk arriving in the main terminal from the concourses (including one guy who yelled out, &#8220;Dad!&#8221;).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190519_193206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-138830\" title=\"Dave and Margie at the airport\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190519_193206-650x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190519_193206-650x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190519_193206-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190519_193206-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190519_193206-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190519_193206-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190519_193206-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up The Boy at the airport, home from college. Thoughtfully wore MOM and DAD name tags, and held up a SON placard, just in case he didn&#39;t recognize us. pic.twitter.com\/UrrF7EKnJO &mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) May 20, 2019 Picked up The Boy at the airport, home from college. Thoughtfully wore MOM and DAD name tags, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/welcome-home.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome Home!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,69,46],"tags":[723,1851],"class_list":["post-138818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-family","category-school-daze","tag-nt","tag-summervacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190519_193206.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41940,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/10\/obit-for-dad-via-the-mortuary.html","url_meta":{"origin":138818,"position":0},"title":"Obit for Dad (via the mortuary&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-May-14 11:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Obit for Dad (via the mortuary). http:\/\/t.co\/0afLliqucw","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":138597,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/10\/the-heartbreak-of-dad-jokes.html","url_meta":{"origin":138818,"position":1},"title":"The Heartbreak of Dad Jokes","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Apr-19 11:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some kids even flee their home state to get away.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Jokes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Jokes","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/jokes"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-heartbreak-of-dad-jokes-__DApLNFJlw.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-heartbreak-of-dad-jokes-__DApLNFJlw.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-heartbreak-of-dad-jokes-__DApLNFJlw.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-heartbreak-of-dad-jokes-__DApLNFJlw.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-heartbreak-of-dad-jokes-__DApLNFJlw.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2461,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/19\/toddlin.html","url_meta":{"origin":138818,"position":2},"title":"Toddlin&#8217;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jun-02 6:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"And here's today's Ask Mr. Toddler Dad question: Q. 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