{"id":871,"date":"2009-03-18T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/03\/18\/happy-st-patricks-day\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T00:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T04:55:00","slug":"happy-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/03\/18\/happy-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. Patrick&#39;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_477396947\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<br \/>Top of the Evening to you John&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you would have found some Irish translation for this letter as you did the pirate speak.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll pass in the event I could not turn it off.<\/p>\n<p>Today felt busy.\u00a0 I did needed things today and got the hose ready for the pool.\u00a0 I went to walk with Jill and Dublin this morning.\u00a0 This was Dublin&#8217;s first dog walk\u00a0 with other dogs since his accident.\u00a0 He is doing great and had so much fun with Chai and Satori.\u00a0 I got home and was able to get water flowing into the pool.\u00a0 Hopefully between tonight and tomorrow I can get the pool back up to being half full.\u00a0 I trust the pool will not blow over now.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe had an orthodontists appointment today to get his lacrosse mouth guard.\u00a0 He will return to get testing to see if he needs braces.\u00a0 His teeth have moved quite a bit however maybe they need a little help.\u00a0 It will be his decision.\u00a0 Kristin is getting braces on my birthday&#8230;what an April Fool&#8217;s Day trick!<\/p>\n<p>I had teen yoga tonight.\u00a0 It was fun.\u00a0 I played celtic music.\u00a0 They are strong kids.<\/p>\n<p>Not much excitemment around here for St. Patty&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 Gabe was all decked out in green.\u00a0 I found one shirt that had a patch of green on it.\u00a0 Most kids I asked today were not doing anything green.\u00a0 No one really knew what corned beef and cabbage was&#8230;maybe that is good.\u00a0 We had baked beans and perogies tonight that had potato filling.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the closest I got.\u00a0 I was thinking of having a Guiness but it seems too big to drink.\u00a0 Maybe I will change my mind.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>It is funny-odd being in this homogenous culture in Vermont.\u00a0 There are no real Greek&#8230;Italian&#8230;or Irish areas.\u00a0 Living in Endicott and Pittsburgh we had such strong ethnics.\u00a0 I had trouble pronouncing many of my friends last names.\u00a0 I still like reading the paper at home to see those last names&#8230;many ending in &#8220;ski&#8221;.\u00a0 Pittsburgh was the same way.\u00a0 St. Patrick&#8217;s Day was a real celebration.\u00a0 Here in Vermont we have the lake people&#8230;the mountain dwellers&#8230;the hikers&#8230;the bikers.\u00a0 It is interesting these differences.\u00a0 Not good or bad&#8230;just different.<\/p>\n<p>Max called today.\u00a0 He is in Delaware with friends for a few days for his school break.\u00a0 They did go to a beach and he hopped in the ocean and thought of you.\u00a0 Something he had to do.\u00a0 They are being spoiled by friends&#8217; parents and having fun.\u00a0 They are off to see Watchman.\u00a0 He is trying to finish reading it first.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;Gabe and I stopped in and saw Dan at the &#8220;Long Trail Community Market&#8221; today.\u00a0 He let us wander around and see the place.\u00a0 Wow&#8230;it is so big inside.\u00a0 He was giving details to Bill H.\u00a0 He has much to do to change the atmosphere and I know he will do it.\u00a0 Gabe &#038; I did peak in the back freezer and saw the meat hooks.\u00a0 It looked like a spooky movie scene.\u00a0 I took some pictures however Gabe is using the upstairs computer so the picts will have ot wait for another day.<\/p>\n<p>Time for bed.\u00a0 Sleep well John under these stars.\u00a0 May the luck of the Irish shine down on you.\u00a0 love&#8230;diane\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top of the Evening to you John&#8230; I&#8217;m sure you would have found some Irish translation for this letter as you did the pirate speak.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll pass in the event I could not turn it off. Today felt busy.\u00a0 I did needed things today and got the hose ready for the pool.\u00a0 I went to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/03\/18\/happy-st-patricks-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy St. Patrick&#39;s Day<\/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-871","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\/871","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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}