{"id":1341,"date":"2008-02-09T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/02\/09\/friday-night-taming-of-the-shrew\/"},"modified":"2008-02-09T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T09:32:00","slug":"friday-night-taming-of-the-shrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/02\/09\/friday-night-taming-of-the-shrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night &#8211; taming of the shrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pBlogBody_356172182\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t    I had a really good day today&#8230; got lots done.. didn&#8217;t stress to much.. got exercise and took it pretty slow. I&#8217;m being very mindful of how I&#8217;m feeling going into my birthday tomorrow.&nbsp; It&#8217;s already my brithday in much of the world.. &nbsp; At one level I think I&#8217;m doing pretty well.. at a another level I can feel myself being argumentative and brittle with folks at work and folks on the phone., .. a sure sign of hidden stress for me.. I&#8217;m reminding myself to observe rather than judge when I see myself doing something like this..&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I did a bunch of observing today.. how am I feeling abut being another year older.. how am I feeling about Sam ?&nbsp;&nbsp; All in all&#8230; I feel pretty &#8216;ok&#8217; .. we&#8217;ll see how tomorrow goes.. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The day passed quickly with work stuff.. first a home then a few hours at Champlain.. As I said productive.. but not too much to report.&nbsp; &nbsp; This evening we had the treat of going to Gabe&#8217;s classes;&#8217;&nbsp; Shakespeare plays..&nbsp; I got there at 5:30 since I was the official videographer. It was chaos in the rooms as the kids got ready<br \/><center><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808004.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808005.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Finally it was time to start !<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808011.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">the kids were magnificent.. there were 5 different plays.. each about 20 minutes long.  They included excerpts from Midsummer Night&#8217;s&nbsp; Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Adu About Nothing, and Taming of the Shrew.. which Gabe was in. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808013.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808019.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808034.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808036.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808066.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s Gabe waiting to go on&#8230;.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808073.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s Austin as Malvolio <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808071.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Gabe had a great part that included him getting hit over the head with a guitar.. t was really, really cute. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808081.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808076.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808089.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808121.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808127.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808128.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808130.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s Will<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808153.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">and Sydney&#8230; <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808163.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808166.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">At the end of the play everyone scattered. in a few minutes the theater had been carried away. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808170.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">After the play we went to the Cider House in Waterbury to hear Marshal and Friends play some really . really excellent Irish music. Tim and our mutual friend Mark came down to join us. The place was packed.. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808173.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Rusty and Rj&#8217;s mom was there and tipped them off that it was my birthday.. They sang a great &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; Irish style to me.. it was really wonderful.. I needed it ! <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808176.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">There were many of our friends in the bar.. Aisha, Elisabeth, Wanda, Rusty and Rj&#8217;s mom and her husband and friends, the Ferrel&#8217;s neighbors. It felt like old home week . <br \/>&nbsp;At one point, Diane, Gabe and Max snuck off to play pool.. When I went to get them. Gabe was glued to this pre-video, video Machine. it was fun watching him play.. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb0808\/feb0808179.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">OK.. I&#8217;m falling asleep after each sentence.. time to say good nigt.. It&#8217;s one minute until my 49th birthday.. I&#8217;m going to make it a good year.. I love you All.. I love you Sam&#8230; Happy Birthday to me !<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>ps. Our team from Mexicali is taking the&nbsp; penguin plunge tomorrow at around 11 to 11:15.. If you&#8217;re still interested in sponsoring us . please let me know ASAP. Thanks !<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a really good day today&#8230; got lots done.. didn&#8217;t stress to much.. got exercise and took it pretty slow. I&#8217;m being very mindful of how I&#8217;m feeling going into my birthday tomorrow.&nbsp; It&#8217;s already my brithday in much of the world.. &nbsp; At one level I think I&#8217;m doing pretty well.. at a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/02\/09\/friday-night-taming-of-the-shrew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday night &#8211; taming of the shrew<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}