{"id":3835,"date":"2020-01-19T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2020-01-19T22:20:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T04:20:58","slug":"dear-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/19\/dear-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Journal,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer took Autumn to pick up the breakfast pizza I ordered, then took both girls to their all-region band event. She was still feeling sick and came back to nap in the floor while I watched some more renovation YouTube videos. Eventually she had to go take the girls home for lunch and to clean up before their concert.<\/p>\n<p>I cleaned up and took a bath for a while, and eventually left to get stuff for dinner. I stopped by Harbor Freight first to return my broken fireman&#8217;s axe that didn&#8217;t even make it through one log. Then I went to Walmart for beans and veggies to throw in the InstantPot. Summer wanted a coffee, but Starbucks had a line coiled around the building like a constrictor, so I went back towards McDonald&#8217;s instead. She liked the hot mocha just as well, and it probably cost less than half as much.<\/p>\n<p>I started chopping up onions, celery, and carrots to throw in with our old ham bone, then threw it all in the pressure cooker. Clint stopped by while I was prepping, just briefly enough to pick up some network cable and then hit the road again. A couple hours later, we had a pretty decent soup made. I thought it was a bit bland and lacked inspiration, but I was in a little bit of a rush anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Summer, Eaddie, and I binged on several episodes of\u00a0<em>Glee<\/em> until we couldn&#8217;t take it any more. It was well after all of our bedtimes anyway, and even I felt weepy tired.<\/p>\n<p><em>Once again, I&#8217;ve <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">won<\/span>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer took Autumn to pick up the breakfast pizza I ordered, then took both girls to their all-region band event. She was [&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":[1],"tags":[29,36,41],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-family","tag-food","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","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=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}