{"id":51260,"date":"2015-05-25T21:54:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T03:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/25\/a-long-long-weekend.html"},"modified":"2015-05-25T21:54:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T03:54:30","slug":"a-long-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/25\/a-long-long-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"A long, long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And, of course, a nod and consideration for those who served in the US military, and lost their lives in doing so. Good people, bad people, good wars, bad wars &#8212; you deserve and receive remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>I could use, after a four-day weekend, a day off. Lots of stuff going on, as previously noted &#8212; in-laws moving here, friends moving to a new locale, my mom visting, Denver Comic Con, my daughter&#39;s 15th birthday &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All yay-worthy, to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>The other noteworthy thing worth noting is the partial initiation of the New Kitchen, both with using the dishwasher for washing dishes (and the convection \/ microwave for actually baking some potatoes), but also entertaining people on a couple of evenings. Everyone oohed and aahed, and also made use of the space just as intended. It made us happy.<\/p>\n<p>I could really use a day or two more off, but so it goes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6153023377344673377\/6153023382777242338'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-p26dJPuWBAI\/VWPuKqEcIuI\/AAAAAAADSpY\/oCiUtWizCJ0\/ff0a2511907fb34c818527e49c280c711d15b6cf001e4947e07daeca34ca756a%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/6sDUinNV2mi'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, of course, a nod and consideration for those who served in the US military, and lost their lives in doing so. Good people, bad people, good wars, bad wars &#8212; you deserve and receive remembrance. I could use, after a four-day weekend, a day off. Lots of stuff going on, as previously noted &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/25\/a-long-long-weekend.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A long, long weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ff0a2511907fb34c818527e49c280c711d15b6cf001e4947e07daeca34ca756a5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129232,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/the-force-awakens-does-boffo-box-office.html","url_meta":{"origin":51260,"position":0},"title":"&quot;The Force Awakens&quot; does boffo box office","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 20-Dec-15 4:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The movie had great word of mouth before and during the previews, which definitely helped. 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