{"id":1039,"date":"2009-12-26T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T20:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2009\/12\/26\/1039\/"},"modified":"2009-12-26T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T21:11:10","slug":"1039","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1039","title":{"rendered":"\u201c. . . peace to men on whom His favor rests.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cTo be politically correct, I can say<br \/>\nthat I\u2019m scoping out the Norwegians<br \/>\nwhen I get on a plane, but face it,<br \/>\nif there\u2019s a shaky Muslim cat near me,<br \/>\nI\u2019m going to be keeping my eye on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u2014Dennis Miller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20091226\/D9CR18JO0.html\">News of a thwarted terrorist act<\/a> has popped the bubble of holiday euphoria, and yet, to maintain a festive mood is remarkably easy for those of us who weren\u2019t called upon to celebrate Christmas by clambering over an airline seat to subdue a suicidal fanatic.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning found us at Terie and Marty\u2019s for Christmas brunch gift giving. After arriving home we had some private time (I got a new bicycle helmet from Santa), before relaxing with afternoon victuals, enjoying the company of our dear friends, David and Lee, and a sensational <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seghesio.com\/LandingPage1\/tabid\/219\/Default.aspx\">Sonoma County Zinfandel<\/a> from Dana\u2019s brother Bill. A trip to Lexington followed, where we watched the new Eastwood picture and shared our evening at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/u\/profile_photos\/240163?photo_id=52343\">The Pub<\/a>. Not surprisingly, \u201cInvictus\u201d pushed my buttons, but the editorial pacing of the World Cup championship match fell a bit short of my expectations. In any case, Freeman\u2019s portrayal of Mandela was outstanding, and it\u2019s my understanding that he has wanted to play the character for many years, having brought the adaptation to Clint while developing the property himself.<\/p>\n<p>Today is Boxing Day, so it\u2019s off to Kelley Ridge for more conviviality. Things just keep getting better during this splendid countdown to a landmark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyleandcaitlan.com\/Index.html\">New Year\u2019s Eve wedding<\/a> in Louisville!   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo be politically correct, I can say that I\u2019m scoping out the Norwegians when I get on a plane, but face it, if there\u2019s a shaky Muslim cat near me, I\u2019m going to be keeping my eye on him.\u201d &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u2014Dennis Miller News of a thwarted terrorist act has popped the bubble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,12,18,29,8,70,28,22,16,10,67,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}