{"id":1422,"date":"2007-05-19T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/05\/19\/friday-night-kansas\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T09:01:00","slug":"friday-night-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/05\/19\/friday-night-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before I start, I have a confession to make.. I’ve had too much mead to write coherently.. .. I know the expression ‘too much mead’ hasn’t been uttered much in the last millennium , but I’m at my brother in law Steve’s in Leavenworth, Kansas.. Steve is, <\/i>among many other things, a very accomplished  mead brewer. He raises honey.. <\/p>\n

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and basically useses a fair portion of it to make the world’s oldest alcoholic beverage.. yum. After two bottles of this it’s likely to add a little grog to the blog .. <\/p>\n

    <\/span>We’re here  <\/span>in Kansas<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to celebrate the graduation of our niece Elizabeth from nursing school. Elizabeth<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> graduated with honors for her nursing program in Topeka<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and will soon start working in Framingham<\/st1:city> Mass.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>. only a few miles from where my folks live.<\/p>\n

   <\/span>   <\/span>After a last late night walk around San Diego Bay we wet to bed early last night.<\/p>\n

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We had to leave <\/st1:place><\/st1:city> very early this morning. We had to get up at 4:00 AM<\/st1:time> ..(ugh) to make our flight <\/p>\n

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The plane to Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> was full, I had a middle seat.. and was sitting next to a baby\u2026<\/p>\n

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even so, I was on the plane for about 5 minutes before I fell asleep. It was an uneventful flight..  <\/span>When we were pulling our stuff together to get off the plane, I looked around for Sam.. It’s always like that.. <\/p>\n

    <\/span>We had a three hour layover in Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> then got to Kansas<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> about 3:00 PM<\/st1:time>. Then drove about an hour to Steve and Denise’s . It’s great being here.. The last time we were here was about 9 years ago.  <\/span>We had about an hour’s drive to get to Elizabeth<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>‘s graduation ceremony. Before we left, we had a quick dinner of pizza with  <\/span>Steve’s home grown hot peppers..   <\/span>Just after I ate I walked around the house looking at all of the pictures they had of Diane, Max, Sam, Gabe and I.. some of the pictures were new to me.<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, and they hit me hard.<\/p>\n

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As I reached o rub the tears out of my eyes I realized too late that my hands  <\/span>were all covered with hot peppers.. Yow !. My eyes were on fire.. but it turned my tears into laughter.. Sam never lets us take ourselves too seriously\u2026  <\/span><\/p>\n

   <\/span>We got in the car and drove about an hour more to get to Topeka<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> to see Elizabeth<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>‘s ceremony which was in an Episcopal Church associate with  <\/span>the  <\/span>hospital in which she trained.  <\/span>We’re so proud of her..  <\/span>I have so much respect for folks like nurses and doctors who devote their lives to helping other people. Could I do that ?
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   <\/span>We watched  <\/span>the graduation ceremony. Then drove back to Leavenworth<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and started to hit the mead\u2026 <\/p>\n

   <\/span>Its now almost midnight<\/st1:time> and I need to sleep.. more tomorrow..(he says afte fallign alseep typing for 30 mintues) waitng for picture sot upload over mey clelphone)  Looks like I don’t have the bandwith i need to upload all my pictures.. I may need to do that tomorow.. G’nite Sam..<\/p>\n

-jc<\/p>\n

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Before I start, I have a confession to make.. I’ve had too much mead to write coherently.. .. I know the expression ‘too much mead’ hasn’t been uttered much in the last millennium , but I’m at my brother in law Steve’s in Leavenworth, Kansas.. Steve is, among many other things, a very accomplished  mead … Continue reading Friday night – Kansas<\/span> →<\/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-1422","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\/1422","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=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}