{"id":2144,"date":"2009-05-22T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2009-05-22T00:09:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T05:09:36","slug":"a-mostly-normal-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"A mostly normal day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandson had a cold this morning and so did I so I offered to watch him instead of having his Mother send him to day care. We watched Thomas the Tank episodes. I dozed a bit as he sat on my lap. We took a shower, played with TC Timber trains up by my computer so I could get a couple posts in and then had lunch &#8211; chicken soup and fresh fruit. Grandma came home with the cold that&#8217;s laid her low for the last couple days. She only lasted through the morning before her return. A very long nap followed which gave me a couple hours to work on some over due family paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>I popped my Grandson in the car seat after he woke up and we went to the store to buy kabobs and yams to cook on the grill. After dinner I got the back lawn raked and the front lawn mowed. Over the past couple weeks I&#8217;d almost forgotten what it was like to spend time with family. It was very pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>After my wife and I were alone I opened a nice bottle of zin and found my wife turned to the The Movie Channel which was showing West Side Story. I love the music so we watched it together for the first time since my daughter was about ten years old.<\/p>\n<p>On that occasion she was sitting on my lap just as her son sat on my lap this morning. That was a traumatic experience because when we got to the end and poor Tony was done in by Chino I began a repressed sobbing. To my daughter it felt like I was suppressing laughter and since she was crying she thought I was laughing at her. To my horror she ran upstairs shouting that I was making fun of her. <\/p>\n<p>It is so easy to be misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be in court early tomorrow before the 9AM hearing. No matter what happens I don&#8217;t plan to cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandson had a cold this morning and so did I so I offered to watch him instead of having his Mother send him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}