{"id":1561,"date":"2009-12-23T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T05:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2009-12-23T21:44:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T05:44:59","slug":"christmas-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"christmas day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

After working nearly a full (stressful) day I picked up my parents at the Burbank airport.\u00a0 We took Vanowen to Sepulveda and went to the 99 Ranch Market for some live crabs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Afterwards I replaced the vacuum band and discovered it still wasn’t working.\u00a0 After much consternation from all three of us, my dad took off the attachment hose and asked me if I had a broom handle.\u00a0 Sure enough we discovered a blockage in the artery like a cheeseburger in Dom Deluise.<\/p>\n

This of course used only a portion of my dad’s brain;\u00a0another part\u00a0was examining my entranceway light, which has worked poorly for a while.\u00a0 I wanted to make sure it was really truly burnt out before I took the next step.\u00a0My father’s electrical know-how, being an engineer, is far beyond mine, and live electricity is something I don’t mess with – plumbing, sure, but anything measured in volts, I don’t think so.\u00a0 Best to leave that to the retired expert.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sure thing, dad confirmed that two of the light sockets were completely burnt out (and one of the wires too).\u00a0 So, we capped the night off with a trip to Home Depot for a new light fixture (because they didn’t have replacement sockets).<\/p>\n

My mom actually swept my condo while we were at Home Depot, so unfortunately today ended up being more work than fun for them – hopefully it’ll be all fun tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After working nearly a full (stressful) day I picked up my parents at the Burbank airport.\u00a0 We took Vanowen to Sepulveda and went to the 99 Ranch Market for some live crabs.\u00a0 Afterwards I replaced the vacuum band and discovered it still wasn’t working.\u00a0 After much consternation from all three of us, my dad took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}