{"id":310,"date":"2005-08-24T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/08\/24\/310\/"},"modified":"2005-08-24T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T18:43:25","slug":"310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/08\/24\/310\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just said goodbye to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/anacrusis\/2005\/08\/24\/0\" title=\"I usually won at baseball.\">Ian<\/a>.  He&#8217;s going to work for a month in Utah before heading on to Los Angeles.  He beat me to Louisville, and now he&#8217;s going to beat me to California.  He&#8217;s been taller than me for as long as I can remember.<\/p>\n<p>Ian&#8217;s got a new used truck and everything he owns is in its bed.  He&#8217;s let his hair get too long because he thinks it&#8217;s rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll.  Last night was the biggest Tuesday Night Basketball I think we&#8217;ve ever had&#8211;everyone showed for a sendoff to its lynchpin.  We ordered so much food and Lisa made a cake.  We played games.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder how much I damaged Ian, growing up, by expecting him to be my peer and treating him like an inferior.  Then I realize I&#8217;m assigning myself too much influence.  Ian&#8217;s his own man, smart and ethical and a past master of all the social skills with which I still grapple; he didn&#8217;t need me to teach him about jokes or girls or writing code.<\/p>\n<p>Ian will say his Saint Michaels.  He&#8217;ll be fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just said goodbye to Ian. He&#8217;s going to work for a month in Utah before heading on to Los Angeles. He beat me to Louisville, and now he&#8217;s going to beat me to California. He&#8217;s been taller than me for as long as I can remember. Ian&#8217;s got a new used truck and everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,31,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-ian","category-landmarks","category-x-night-ballers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}