{"id":244,"date":"2002-08-20T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-20T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=244"},"modified":"2002-08-20T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-20T23:56:00","slug":"244","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I just found Heather Hoffman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/huzzah.hoffmang.com\/\"><\/a>web site!  She started a blog in July.  She and Gene have a baby girl of four months (God, the last 12 months have been productive) and are enjoying the daily mysteries of parenthood.  Good times.<\/p>\n<p>What else is new?  Well, today&#8217;s my baby sister&#8217;s 31st birthday (Happy Birthday, Kate!), so for the next two months she&#8217;s only one year younger than me.  She&#8217;s far, far away from me on Salt Spring Island in B.C., but I&#8217;m thinking of her.  Wonder of wonders, I also actually thought of her enough on the weekend to get her present in the mail, which makes me maybe less of a bad brother than before.  It&#8217;s especially miraculous because I got a bit fried at work on Friday (now fully healed) and spent the whole weekend fretting over something that turns out not to have been a big deal at all.<\/p>\n<p>Now back in Hartford, and the project progresses.  On the plus side, I&#8217;m not going to have any trouble working any necessary overtime while I&#8217;m down here, because let me tell you there sure ain&#8217;t much else to do in this town.  (This is why I&#8217;m still in the office:  the internet connection is my best form of entertainment here.  Sad, innit?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I just found Heather Hoffman&#8217;s web site! She started a blog in July. She and Gene have a baby girl of four months (God, the last 12 months have been productive) and are enjoying the daily mysteries of parenthood. Good times. What else is new? Well, today&#8217;s my baby sister&#8217;s 31st birthday (Happy Birthday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}