{"id":1553,"date":"2017-12-14T23:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T05:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2017-12-14T23:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T05:32:40","slug":"what-are-traditions-work-holiday-shindig-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/what-are-traditions-work-holiday-shindig-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Traditions: Work Holiday Shindig 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was kind of a weirdly relaxed day, mostly due to a pep rally at the junior high. I did make some decent progress on some things I had been working on though, so overall it was a successful day.<\/p>\n<p>People have been so impressed with my Pixel 2 XL that both Sarah and Ronda ordered smaller ones for themselves. I played with Sarah&#8217;s for a bit, and really liked the size. The top and bottom bezels didn&#8217;t feel as bad as they looked in pictures. I still feel like mine is way too big to comfortably use, but I like the smaller bezels.<\/p>\n<p>After work, I had to run to Walmart to pick up the stuff for a broccoli, rice, and cheese casserole for Ben&#8217;s Christmas dinner at his place. He smoked a pork shoulder, and we had all the fixings for a nice barbecue meal. Gary and I traded high scores in Seaquest on the Atari, at one point taking turns doubling each other&#8217;s previous scores. It was a really great time with everyone.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JucFpDhuF98\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Centuries worth of technological advances, and this is what we do with it?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was kind of a weirdly relaxed day, mostly due to a pep rally at the junior high. I did make some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[28,36,37,31,30,5,27],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traditions","category-work-adventures","tag-adventure","tag-food","tag-friends","tag-holiday","tag-potluck","tag-traditions","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}