{"id":9492,"date":"2026-03-23T22:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:01:55","slug":"mid-to-late-forties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/mid-to-late-forties\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-to-Late Forties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer decided to take the day off for her birthday, and spent the first day of spring break with Eaddie. In contrast, I went to work and spent a lot of time reading Microsoft documentation. Muad&#8217;Dib and I went to Sonic for lunch, but it was slightly cold and super windy, so it wasn&#8217;t quite as enjoyable as I had hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whole day kind of crept along, but we eventually got to go home. The car routed me off the Interstate early, so we drove by and saw that Zaxby&#8217;s was, in fact, permanently closed. I think we loved their chicken the most, so this was pretty upsetting, not to mention the fact that I still have some money left on a gift card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The girls were gone when we got to the house, because all three kids wanted to take Summer out to dinner. I offered to go along, but Eaddie said they just wanted to go with the four of them. I rested for a bit, and then walked Muad&#8217;Dib to my parents&#8217; house where we ate some bok choy that Mom stir fried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We walked back home as it got dark, and Summer and the kids all met us out in the road as they were leaving. Then Summer went to bed, and I eventually trailed along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fewer and fewer breaks feels like living life in reverse.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer decided to take the day off for her birthday, and spent the first day of spring break with Eaddie. In contrast, [&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":[56,96,29,66,31,42,71,5,27],"class_list":["post-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-disappointment","tag-dog","tag-family","tag-frustration","tag-holiday","tag-pets","tag-sad","tag-traditions","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","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=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9494,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}