{"id":1399,"date":"2007-08-20T23:15:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T06:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2007-08-20T23:16:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T06:16:32","slug":"my-relatives-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"My relatives are coming."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was moving things around in preparation for my aunt, her sister-in-law, and a family friend to come from Japan. I had to clear some stuff off of the bed in my &#8220;office&#8221; which really is another flat surface for me to pile up my clean laundry. I think I have way too many t-shirts. Fortunately, we&#8217;ve been taking a lot of my dad&#8217;s old stuff to Goodwill lately and my old clothes have been going too. My pants, which mysteriously shrunk, are among the things going. Oddly enough I bought a pair of shorts for golf from Target earlier this summer and what they call 32 is what I call a hell of a lot bigger.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of all of my &#8220;cleaning,&#8221; my sister called and wanted some information from the <i>Parade Magazine<\/i> in the Sunday paper. Of course it&#8217;s garbage day and I had to go out with a flashlight to dig it out of the recycle bin. I think she&#8217;d already recycled hers the day before. I should tell her my back hurts from all the stooping over the recycle bin. Not that she&#8217;d care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was moving things around in preparation for my aunt, her sister-in-law, and a family friend to come from Japan. I had to clear some stuff off of the bed in my &#8220;office&#8221; which really is another flat surface for me to pile up my clean laundry. I think I have way too many t-shirts. Fortunately, we&#8217;ve been taking a lot of my dad&#8217;s old stuff to Goodwill lately and my old clothes have been going too. My pants, which mysteriously shrunk, are among the things going. Oddly enough I bought a pair of shorts for golf from Target earlier this summer and what they call 32 is what I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My relatives are coming.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}