{"id":36,"date":"2003-06-13T15:43:23","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T22:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2003-06-13T15:43:23","modified_gmt":"2003-06-13T22:43:23","slug":"the-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/20030613\/the-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had hoped to get around to mentioning that I was visiting my folks before now, but things have been busy.<\/p>\n<p>Got together with nearly all the guys from the college days.<\/p>\n<p>Actually it was quite a day of running around: lunch with my Father&#8217;s boss, over to the medical school to take a look at the crematorium, morgue, lecture hall, and simulation bodies.<\/p>\n<p>THEN it was time for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Surprised by my Best Man&#8217;s new girlfriend. Surprised he had one and that she was less old than I might have expected.<\/p>\n<p>Conversation at dinner was nothing more scintillating than than &#8220;Remember when we did that one thing?&#8221; and &#8220;What ever happened to so and so?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Came back to the house and talked about the possibilities of starting a comic book store or a boutique movie theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had hoped to get around to mentioning that I was visiting my folks before now, but things have been busy. Got together with nearly all the guys from the college days. Actually it was quite a day of running around: lunch with my Father&#8217;s boss, over to the medical school to take a look at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/20030613\/the-dinner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dinner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb6Km-A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}