{"id":539,"date":"2009-02-17T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2009-02-17T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T04:52:00","slug":"valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you don&#8217;t see anything on the blog, it means that there is a lot going on.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a summary:<br \/>Saturday was Valentine&#8217;s day.  My wife and I went out with her sisters and their husbands.  We all get along ever so well.<\/p>\n<p>We went to Rodizio Grill which is a Argentinian type steakhouse where they come around with all sorts of meat on skewers and cut you off a chunk if you want.  Alligator, boar, pork, steak, and so forth.  Sort of like Noah&#8217;s ark gone wrong.<\/p>\n<p>God: ding!  Billy Bob, what happened to all the animals?<br \/>Billy Bob (Noah&#8217;s lesser known cousin&#8211; in redneck accent): Weeeell, we was gettin&#8217; a little peckish ya see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then off to a local playhouse for some wholesome entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>That was quite a night.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday we had over relatives and friends for a lunch-type thing.  At church we gave Willow a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naming_and_blessing_children\">name and a blessing<\/a>.  Afterwards, sitting in the pew, I cradled the sleeping baby girl in my arms for about a half hour, just looking at her admiringly.  It felt like everything faded away and we were alone inside a giant egg of peace and tranquility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you don&#8217;t see anything on the blog, it means that there is a lot going on. Here&#8217;s a summary:Saturday was Valentine&#8217;s day. My wife and I went out with her sisters and their husbands. We all get along ever so well. We went to Rodizio Grill which is a Argentinian type steakhouse where they [&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-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}