{"id":5030,"date":"2021-03-14T01:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T07:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2021-03-14T01:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T07:21:27","slug":"on-the-color-of-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/14\/on-the-color-of-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Color of Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Julie messaged me just as I was about to go to bed last night, so I went over to her place to try and chat with her and Dad. I was there for a little over an hour before she finally kicked me out, which is to say that it didn&#8217;t go well. Then this morning she started in on me again, but followed up later in a group text with a deal that I appreciated, so I&#8217;m hoping that&#8217;s an indication that it&#8217;s not a total loss. I&#8217;d really like my sister back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maleea&#039;s Birthday Skate Party\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o09fG5DCtrM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a busy day today. Summer wanted to meet for lunch, so I got ready and met her at Mulan&#8217;s. Then we ran to Walmart for a card before picking up the girls to go to Maleea&#8217;s birthday party at the skating rink. The girls had a bit of fun, but it seemed like Maleea was starting to grow out of that kind of party. I remember having skating parties all the time in grade school, but not nearly as much into the double digit age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was just a little bit of time to kill before we had to get across town for another birthday party, so we went to my house for a bit. Then we took Eaddie to Washburn Park. Amber dropped her kid off and I waved her down so Summer could meet her. We waited for a little while for Jaylinn and Maristella, but gave up and headed on to the bowling alley to wait there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3e6i4bDTyZV0CwxZXx10mX-kvNPBGTfuEj1D-AkM_Hln587VnkbRYRVYBFeSckXOY2Cpbk3ga5Ek1M3kvyRa0TGN4ftPNNIv1yfTxAEOl0m0URyUnjBsLeHnwH5BVgQJWNSPtW4zj-CMSRT8_a2u1zFMg=w1292-h970-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even then we had to wait, so eventually we went inside to play a game. The girls took turns bowling for Jaylinn until she got there, then we played one more game. It was a pretty good time, but that place was absolutely packed and hardly anyone had a mask on. The sign out front basically gave everyone a pass on having a health concern that they wouldn&#8217;t ask about, so even the staff weren&#8217;t wearing masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kids finished their game and spent some time in the arcade while Summer and I waited outside. Then we headed on home for the evening. Summer and I watched a couple episodes of <em>WandaVision<\/em> to catch her up, and then it was off to bed and to lose an hour for daylight saving time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It&#8217;s been Agatha all along!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie messaged me just as I was about to go to bed last night, so I went over to her place to [&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":[45,29,57,5],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-anger-management","tag-family","tag-parenting","tag-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030","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=5030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5032,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions\/5032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}