{"id":5300,"date":"2021-06-27T00:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2021-06-27T17:41:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T22:41:52","slug":"lively-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2021\/06\/27\/lively-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"Lively Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer was going to work in Conway today, but ended up getting the day off after all due to a chance of some rain over a carwash. I got up and met Gary at Ridgewood Brothers&#8217; to surprise Blake, who was in town for a couple days and was supposed to pick up a preorder of food for his girlfriend&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grant chatted with us for a while, but was in a bit of a sleepy haze after working overnight. Eventually he left as Gary and I stuck it out in the heat. The girlfriend&#8217;s brother ultimately came for the food, but called Blake to get him out of the house to see us. That&#8217;s when I got the idea to hide in the smokehouse and have Robert pretend that we had given up on him and left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/AM-JKLURhxvyeSJKLosfI-5x_rmQwYlFIXgqzOweuuGESvA1dVk-MKpa6TZ4b51AeftsB5jLYZUcm5F7792EQg-MlEvnrLv6R9cwZYkKjvKX_H0kCakrwJWsMWRHwYqSKiznxUfhWPTervMJvE0XxnZ2dk2gcA=w1920-h864-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was great catching up, even if he wasn&#8217;t as close to me as the rest of that group. I got to hear reminiscent stories about Mitch&#8217;s Hypotonic, which I vaguely remember. Since Grant didn&#8217;t get to see Blake that morning, we decided to meet at Taco John&#8217;s for lunch tomorrow before parting ways. Gary and I got some food on the way out, and I went back home to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/AM-JKLUUCPUuFn2nslRwBxW0vSPMH_BeZz4cC_TyRUAaJP-snBMTkj5ONy17akr_QwwVcZN8_HydK5lB-DGLr5DvtMniPig5n74MRMCSrQLLpNOgNH83xKZJ4xfhfIYwfgqkRrLZAKh56WL03o6wmcozRgXwsw=w1754-h1315-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I picked up some Sonic on the way home, which went great with my Bronco. They had a new &#8220;Texas&#8221; barbecue sauce that I think I actually liked better than their original. With all the time in the sun, I had developed a headache and ended up sleeping for several hours into the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Summer was back home cooking a roast for dinner, along with some banana pudding and even an apple pie. I made it up for the evening and groggily ate, only because I felt less than good after my nap. The food was all super good, and even the apple pie was some of the better that I&#8217;ve had. The girls were getting ready for band camp, and I just sat around for the rest of the evening trying to recover from my nap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Why are there thousands of songs about love and heartbreak, but only one song about the boys being back in town?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer was going to work in Conway today, but ended up getting the day off after all due to a chance of [&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":[36,37],"class_list":["post-5300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-food","tag-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300","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=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}