{"id":470,"date":"2006-05-27T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2006-05-27T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T16:44:39","slug":"memorial_day_2006_check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/memorial_day_2006_check\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day 2006 *check*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just realized something.<br \/>\nThis is the first Memorial Day I&#8217;ve spent in the US in, oh, saaaay, three years!  How boring!  No wonder I&#8217;ve spent it overseas in the past&#8230;<br \/>\nAlthough Memorial Day is meant to be a holiday of rememberance for those soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who have fallen, Memorial Day has become less and less of that and more the official beginning of the summer season.  And a good time to buy a car, apparently.<br \/>\nAnd since I&#8217;ve been stuck in SFO over this holiday weekend, I&#8217;ve been Mr. Handyman around the house, taking care of all those projects that have piled up.<br \/>\nFix intercoms: check.  And check.  Twice because there are two.<br \/>\nCar stereo died on Friday; spent all day Saturday taking my poor car apart to replace it: check.<br \/>\nCaught up on &#8220;24&#8221;: check check check (three episodes).<br \/>\nFinally got interview for Sacto gig; have to dig up writing samples and fill out long application (again!).<br \/>\nBegin stressing? Check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just realized something. This is the first Memorial Day I&#8217;ve spent in the US in, oh, saaaay, three years! How boring! No wonder I&#8217;ve spent it overseas in the past&#8230; Although Memorial Day is meant to be a holiday of rememberance for those soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who have fallen, Memorial Day has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/memorial_day_2006_check\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memorial Day 2006 *check*&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-7A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}