{"id":4740,"date":"2012-09-02T00:43:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T04:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:43:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T04:43:52","slug":"saturday-night-westfordpalooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/09\/02\/saturday-night-westfordpalooza\/","title":{"rendered":"saturday night – westfordpalooza"},"content":{"rendered":"

wow, Diane and I just came back from the best party . but more on that in a sec… Let’s start with today, which was an absolutely gorgeous day.. I slept until nearly nine thanks to a healthy case of jetlag..\u00a0\u00a0 first thin after that was a great game for Gabe’s soccer team up at MMU.. the weather was perfect.. so ws the game..
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on the way home from the game. Diane and I stopped in for our annual anniversary pilgrimage to the round church where we were married 26 years ago yesterday. long time. good time..<\/p>\n

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i saw this original key to the place there today.<\/p>\n

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and we met Dave.. who was chief tour guide at the round church today. really nice guy.<\/p>\n

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after that.. came home and tried to meditate.. which ended up turning into a nap..<\/p>\n

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Around 4:30 we headed up to Westford for ‘Westfordpalooze’.. a big party in the sicks of Westford held by three families, including my friends Bill and Corey. . I beleive this was their 7th year of holding the party..
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it was at one of the couples houses.. what a beautiful spot !!!
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they built a makeshift stage out of the barn..
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and my buddy Bill’s brother Pete even made special (delicious) beer for the event and brought it up from Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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here are my good bud’s Mike and Jeff..
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mike was even rocking one of the limited addition party shirts.<\/p>\n

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the place had great gardens and\u00a0 paddocks with horses and llamas.<\/p>\n

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there were some great signs and bumper stickers around the place..
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the first band guys even write a song for the event !
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here’s host bill<\/p>\n

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and friend rick. again.. he’s everywhere !
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i got out the hoop as it got dark.. and folks had real fun with it.. dancing to the really fine music
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one of the best hoopers was 6 year old elaine.. she was amazing.. !
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\nthey even had an wind powered air pump..<\/p>\n

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the bonfire was lit just about time for darkness .. it took the chill out
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heres jeff on solo..
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while they played, everyone hopped.. even Mike !
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ok.. jet lag commands me to stop right this second..<\/p>\n

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more tomorrow.<\/p>\n

nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

wow, Diane and I just came back from the best party . but more on that in a sec… Let’s start with today, which was an absolutely gorgeous day.. I slept until nearly nine thanks to a healthy case of jetlag..\u00a0\u00a0 first thin after that was a great game for Gabe’s soccer team up at … Continue reading saturday night – westfordpalooza<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[573],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-westfordpalooza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","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=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}