{"id":1029,"date":"2011-07-19T12:40:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2011-07-19T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:40:53","slug":"company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/company\/","title":{"rendered":"Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1030\" title=\"Lemonade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Lemonade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Things happen when company comes.\u00a0 In the last two days, warning lights appeared on the dashboard of the car, the electricity spontaneously stopped working on one side of the house, and I lost my cell phone.\u00a0 These events were purely coincidental and in no way caused by my lovely college friend\u2019s arrival, but having a witness did make me a bit more aware of how I handle things.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t get thrown much by the little stuff here.\u00a0 I looked up the warning lights and dropped the car at the garage, tried the fuse breakers and ran orange extension cords to two bedrooms, and eventually found the cell phone under the couch.<\/p>\n<p>I also had the pleasure of walking a hilltop at sunset with my friend, making lemonade from scratch, touring the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marktwainhouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Twain House<\/a>, and seeing <em>Harry Potter 7.2<\/em> in a theater full of fans.<\/p>\n<p>I like surfacing from my revisions now and then to see what\u2019s up in the real world.\u00a0 Now I\u2019m going back under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things happen when company comes.\u00a0 In the last two days, warning lights appeared on the dashboard of the car, the electricity spontaneously stopped working on one side of the house, and I lost my cell phone.\u00a0 These events were purely coincidental and in no way caused by my lovely college friend\u2019s arrival, but having a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}