{"id":101,"date":"2008-03-30T21:50:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T21:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2008\/03\/30\/family-gathering-at-mikos\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T13:31:00","slug":"family-gathering-at-mikos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2008\/03\/30\/family-gathering-at-mikos\/","title":{"rendered":"Family gathering at Miko&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/gallery\/misc\/fams.jpg\" alt=\"The fam\" border=\"5\" height=\"294\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday my cousin Miko invited the whole family to her place to wish her brother, my other lil&#8217; cousin,  a bon voyage.  Nate Dog, as I refer to him, is moving away and starting a new job soon and it was our last chance to see him before he left. I was sad that he was moving away <!--more-->but I knew that he was happy about the opportunity in front of him. And as a result, I was happy for him. I know from past experience how important it is for you to be happy and intellectually challenged by the work that you do in life. Nothing sucks like being in a job that you have outgrown. The gathering was mellow. Well as mellow as my family gatherings get. We ate, we laughed, we acted a damn fool.  It was great.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gather.jpg\" alt=\"Party at Miko\u2019s\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my cousin Miko invited the whole family to her place to wish her brother, my other lil&#8217; cousin, a bon voyage. Nate Dog, as I refer to him, is moving away and starting a new job soon and it was our last chance to see him before he left. I was sad that he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2008\/03\/30\/family-gathering-at-mikos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Family gathering at Miko&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,6],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columbia-prep","category-lifestyle","tag-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}