{"id":8206,"date":"2024-11-10T00:07:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T06:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2024-11-10T00:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T06:07:55","slug":"ive-got-no-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/10\/ive-got-no-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Got No Strings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eaddie left early this morning for her orchestra rehearsal and concert. Summer and I got up pretty early as well, and headed to Conway early for a movie, shopping, and food before the concert. We ended up barely getting there in time for <em>Venom: The Last Dance<\/em>, so I missed a few previews waiting in line for popcorn. I thought the plot was pretty contrived, and they tried to pack a lot into it, but overall it was fun. It was definitely the weakest of the three. We ran to the lube to drop off someone&#8217;s jacket, then came back to Bargain Hunt to see what they had. It wasn&#8217;t much, so all I got were some dog treats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We made it across town and ended up at Skinny J&#8217;s for lunch. I thought Randy said they were closing down the Conway location, but maybe I was confused. Or maybe I wasn&#8217;t, because we were basically the only people in the restaurant. It was a late lunch though. We ate quickly and then made it to the Conway High School to see Eaddie&#8217;s concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kids did great, but then Eaddie wanted to race over to UCA to see Eli play in a low brass concert. Summer had to check her out with the teacher though, so I ran Eaddie a few blocks away and then came back for Summer. We eventually got back over to UCA for a charge, and watched the tail end of that concert, which was much less formal anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all the concerts were over, Eli came with us and we went to Old Navy for some more shopping. The kids wanted ice cream after that, so I took everyone to MarketPlace Grill. They said it would be a 20 minute wait, but it didn&#8217;t take nearly that long to get a seat. Our server was super talkative and kept asking the kids questions about stuff, and then talking about her family life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The food was probably more miss than hit, with super stale chips and cold food. I remembered having the same problem with the chips last time, so it&#8217;s probably time for a review. We ate and then headed home in the rain, stopping first in Morrilton for some beer and to plant a promo sign in front of that carwash. Then we dropped the kids off at Eaddie&#8217;s car at the high school and headed home. The girls were super pooped and crashed immediately while I played with the dogs a bit and then tried to minimize distractions before bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>All run and no stop.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eaddie left early this morning for her orchestra rehearsal and concert. Summer and I got up pretty early as well, and headed [&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":[29,36,33,76,57,6],"class_list":["post-8206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-family","tag-food","tag-movie","tag-music","tag-parenting","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206","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=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8207,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions\/8207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}