{"id":682,"date":"2008-12-28T13:50:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T18:50:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-16T07:11:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T15:11:59","slug":"saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday the majority of my mother&#8217;s extended family came for a christmas visit. Many of these relatives I hadn&#8217;t seen since thanksgiving 2003 (if my memory is correct). Most of them didn&#8217;t look much older (except for the kids). One of my cousins looked a lot more like me without the Harley Davidson facial hair though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/Sl7EdY3LAhI\/AAAAAAAAAXY\/XBPrlA6SRUg\/s800\/IMG_5192.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The main courses consisted of coleslaw (from my uncle), mac n&#8217; cheese, pulled pork, broccoli casserole and meatballs. I never knew my mother could make such a mean pulled pork.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/Sl7Ed4EW3WI\/AAAAAAAAAXc\/ym8Xk6OzR7A\/s800\/IMG_5193.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My mother had never tried sake and decided to try some. I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of sake &#8211; but usually only because it is served (to me) hot. I convinced her to chill it before putting it out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/Sl7EI5gtwKI\/AAAAAAAAAU4\/HvGLklpxQ_4\/s800\/IMG_0351.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grandpa flanked by two sets of grandsons. You can tell who the little brothers are because they&#8217;re always the tallest (why is that?!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday the majority of my mother&#8217;s extended family came for a christmas visit. Many of these relatives I hadn&#8217;t seen since thanksgiving 2003 (if my memory is correct). Most of them didn&#8217;t look much older (except for the kids). One of my cousins looked a lot more like me without the Harley Davidson facial [&hellip;]<\/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-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}