{"id":1199,"date":"2012-11-21T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/long-day-is-long\/"},"modified":"2012-11-21T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:56:00","slug":"long-day-is-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/long-day-is-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Day is Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got up this morning at 3:45am EST. It&#8217;s now 11:42pm EST, so I&#8217;ve been up for a long time. Why, you ask? Well, this morning the folks and I flew to Minnesota to visit my sister &#8211; woohoo!<\/p>\n<p> Our flight took off at 6:45am and we got in early &#8211; 7:30am CST. Turns out Amy was mistaken on the arrival time (we were supposed to arrive at 8am, she was thinking 8:40) but she met up with us at the car rental place shortly after we had loaded it up. <\/p>\n<p> We headed to her place of work for K-Day where they were celebrating with kalua, koffee, and kookies. Apparently this is a tradition on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. We got to meet several co-workers (current and former) of hers and it was always fun being introduced as &#8220;Amy&#8217;s sister&#8221; or &#8220;Amy&#8217;s parents&#8221; etc. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p> As I&#8217;m rather tired, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get some of this wrong, but I think we next went to pick up the turkey &#038; last minute items from the co-op. Sadly, the &#8220;fresh&#8221; turkey was frozen, but we think we&#8217;ll be good for tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p> Once back at Amy&#8217;s, we figured out where to head for lunch. We went to Herkimer Brewery as mom would get bonus points for her air miles card (or something). I thought the beer battered fish was very good, as was the tartar sauce. Sadly, some of the other things there weren&#8217;t quite as good. The fries were no better than ones you&#8217;d find in your grocer&#8217;s freezer. Ah well, the Strongbow cider was a plus. <\/p>\n<p> We had a couple more things to pick up while out, then we returned home for naps. I didn&#8217;t nap, but got caught up on e-mail and twitter. But not LJ, sadly. Or else I wouldn&#8217;t be doing this now when I&#8217;m too tired to type. I think I&#8217;ll finish this for now and continue tomorrow (or whenever I next get to updating. Heh.)<\/p>\n<p> Thanksgiving is tomorrow (minutes away in Ohio!) so y&#8217;all have a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up this morning at 3:45am EST. It&#8217;s now 11:42pm EST, so I&#8217;ve been up for a long time. Why, you ask? Well, this morning the folks and I flew to Minnesota to visit my sister &#8211; woohoo! Our flight took off at 6:45am and we got in early &#8211; 7:30am CST. Turns out [&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":[17,13,29,18],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal","tag-amy","tag-dad","tag-food","tag-mom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}