{"id":1290,"date":"2012-04-13T22:27:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T03:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2012-04-17T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:27:25","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the Week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Friends \u00e2\u20ac\u201c My best friend Dana turned 60 today, which is one reason why I&#8217;m out in MA for the weekend. Dana and I have known each other for 30 years. Looking forward to the party later. Happy Birthday, pal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Mom \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mom turns 81 later this week. That&#8217;s the second reason I&#8217;m out in MA. I can&#8217;t be here for her birthday, but we can celebrate early with some dinners out. Love you, Mom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Red Sox \u00e2\u20ac\u201c They&#8217;re looking a bit better at home than they did on the road.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> First Class \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I got a chance for a cheap(ish) upgrade on my flight from Chicago to Boston yesterday and flew out First Class. If I could do that all the time, I&#8217;d enjoy traveling much more. Very comfy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Seafood \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mom and I went out for seafood last night. I had a humongous (too big, really) fisherman&#8217;s platter with clams, scallops, and haddock. Delicious. I miss good seafood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the Week Friends \u00e2\u20ac\u201c My best friend Dana turned 60 today, which is one reason why I&#8217;m out in MA for the weekend. Dana and I have known each other for 30 years. Looking forward to the party later. Happy Birthday, pal. Mom \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mom turns 81 later this week. That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-sports","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}