{"id":384,"date":"2005-11-21T21:38:27","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T02:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/11\/21\/happy-birthday-to-marty\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T23:07:09","slug":"happy-birthday-to-marty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/384","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to Marty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I went to church at the Salvation Army, which inspired me to write a Thanksgiving prayer, so I treated myself to a sandwich at my neighborhood hang<\/a> and wrote it out. I saw Tim and Jo Ann, learning that they’d been able to buy the infamous “Banker’s House” on Perryville Road and were in the midst of moving. They said that if they didn’t do it before the holiday, they might be too busy until January (Jo Ann) or April (Tim). Yep, that sounds about right for those two. I wondered how far into seven digits the sticker price climbed. They asked me how Bruce<\/a> was doing. Given Tim’s long, long recovery from his accident, these are two people who understand the meaning of “slow progress.”\n<\/p>\n

Afterwards I puttered around at home, taped plastic around the air conditioner in the mud room, and managed to fit in a nice cross-country run on Mack<\/a>‘s Trails with Milton and Jim before joining the Strocks for an evening of relaxation. Terie invited me to share a delicious birthday dinner for Marty—venison<\/a> chili with cornbread and salad, followed by cake and ice cream (mounds of it!), plus a DVD thriller<\/a> with Kathryn Morris.\n<\/p>\n

Later on, Marty and I both realized we were still in front of the tube watching, for no reason, a Will Ferrell movie<\/a> with Mike Ditka that stunk to high heaven—because we politely assumed the other wanted to—so we promptly re-adjourned in front of the PS2, enabling the Galactic Empire<\/a> to capture Hoth, the ice planet, and closed our night with a burst of energy.\n<\/p>\n

Moral of the story— If you’re going to eat two bowls of chili, birthday cake and Breyers<\/a>, be sure to run hills for five miles first.\n<\/p>\n

Or maybe eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I went to church at the Salvation Army, which inspired me to write a Thanksgiving prayer, so I treated myself to a sandwich at my neighborhood hang and wrote it out. I saw Tim and Jo Ann, learning that they’d been able to buy the infamous “Banker’s House” on Perryville Road and were in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,21,18,29,8,38,28,22,16,31,25,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}