{"id":6495,"date":"2021-11-07T09:17:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T14:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2021-11-07T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T14:18:18","slug":"happy-birthday-john-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6495","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, John!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We celebrated John\u2019s birthday with a nice steak at 501 Prime Friday night &#8211; happy birthday, John!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We drove to Fayetteville to see John\u2019s family on Monday. We had a good visit, including dinner at Pete and Ginger\u2019s Monday night with Philip and Michelle. Ginger and I did some shopping on Tuesday, then we all worked a jigsaw puzzle. Wednesday\u2019s drive back to Hot Springs was lovely &#8211; we were very lucky to see a herd of elk close to the road in Boxley. We stopped in Clarksville for a yummy Tex-Mex lunch, and drove up to the Queen Wilamena Lodge only to be greeted by pea-soup fog!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary and Lynna brought BBQ for lunch on Thursday and we enjoyed a nice visit with them. Stoker came yesterday, and I ran errands, walked, and had coffee with David while they yakked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finished Stephen Fry\u2019s \u201cMythos\u201d last Sunday, then read \u201cThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/B4915FC1-AEDF-4D8B-996D-ABBD2AD8B90A.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/B4915FC1-AEDF-4D8B-996D-ABBD2AD8B90A.jpeg 213w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/B4915FC1-AEDF-4D8B-996D-ABBD2AD8B90A-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/A8B007FF-2447-46D5-91B9-FC6DB2A0B53D.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/A8B007FF-2447-46D5-91B9-FC6DB2A0B53D.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/A8B007FF-2447-46D5-91B9-FC6DB2A0B53D-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/570C225F-2052-48F5-938E-80E16EA359B5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/570C225F-2052-48F5-938E-80E16EA359B5.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/570C225F-2052-48F5-938E-80E16EA359B5-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5D4D24D5-90EE-4C61-9FC1-5835796BDEA8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5D4D24D5-90EE-4C61-9FC1-5835796BDEA8.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5D4D24D5-90EE-4C61-9FC1-5835796BDEA8-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated John\u2019s birthday with a nice steak at 501 Prime Friday night &#8211; happy birthday, John! We drove to Fayetteville to see John\u2019s family on Monday. We had a good visit, including dinner at Pete and Ginger\u2019s Monday night with Philip and Michelle. Ginger and I did some shopping on Tuesday, then we all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions\/6502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}