{"id":2079,"date":"2016-11-07T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2016-11-07T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:50:00","slug":"seven-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/07\/seven-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Write about your parents.<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kinda half-assign this one; my dad\u2019s been gone six years next month. He spent 24 years as an Army officer. He\u2019s now at Section 54, grave 5049 in Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His wife of nearly 40 years, my mother is still living. She\u2019s living in the house they bought as he was retiring from the Army. The house is near the school where she\u2019s worked for more than twenty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She left her home in south&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/events\/land-mass-between-new-orleans-and-mobile\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Landmass<\/a>&nbsp;at the end of the Vietnam War to join her redirected Lieutenant husband in Japan. Before then, she\u2019d never been east of Pensacola, or west of Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the next twenty-four years, she\u2019d travel the globe with him, and rate his reprobate kids (the eldest one, for sure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is her birthday; happy birthday, Mom. On Saturday, we\u2019re headed to see her alma mater pay her daughter in-law\u2019s school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do I have more to write about this, and her? Sure. At the same time, I\u2019m not feeling particularly loquacious tonight. I actually almost forgot to write today after my latest medical adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did notice a few more date misalignments in my prompts. Thinking back, however, one of those might have been intentional. Regardless, tomorrow should be fun; vote for some candidates who don\u2019t thrill me, and prep for my medical test on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should probably at least start working on Wednesday\u2019s entry tomorrow; I\u2019ll be sedated, so I probably should finish before I leave for my appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write about your parents.. Kinda half-assign this one; my dad\u2019s been gone six years next month. He spent 24 years as an Army officer. He\u2019s now at Section 54, grave 5049 in Arlington National Cemetery. His wife of nearly 40 years, my mother is still living. She\u2019s living in the house they bought as he [&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":[36],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}