{"id":9114,"date":"2015-01-19T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=9114"},"modified":"2015-01-18T20:11:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T04:11:17","slug":"a-long-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9114","title":{"rendered":"A long week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a very long and challenging week on many levels, I am home in my own bed again. <\/p>\n<p>A death, a trip, an illness, a change in marital status, a game lost&#8230;but also spending time with my family in Boise, laughing at my brother constantly quizzing his wife about music all the way to and from Idaho, meeting new additions to the family for the first time, connecting with friends&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It is, thankfully, not often that you lose a parent and get a divorce in the same week..if you do, I would suggest that you borrow my family. They&#8217;re pretty great to be around during personal disasters. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much to the Boise clan and Diane for taking care of my frequently difficult Dad. He loved you all very much, even if he was not often apt to demonstrate it. <\/p>\n<p>Every ending is either the beginning of something or helps you see one.<br \/>\nEvery bad thing really does have a silver lining if you look. Even vomit. Really.<br \/>\nDogs truly are Zen masters.<br \/>\nEverything is better if you are surrounded by people who know how to enjoy life and know that even the saddest times contain a lot of laughter. <\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a very long and challenging week on many levels, I am home in my own bed again. A death, a trip, an illness, a change in marital status, a game lost&#8230;but also spending time with my family in Boise, laughing at my brother constantly quizzing his wife about music all the way to and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A long week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2n0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9414,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9414","url_meta":{"origin":9114,"position":0},"title":"In which I take my dead father on a road trip","author":"Michelle","date":"March 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"My Beautiful Aunt Cathy brought my Dad's ashes back from Boise and I picked them up at Diane's this morning.\u00a0It was one of those spectacular blue sky days, so I tried to find someone to go to the beach with me. Failed. Driving out to Diane's place, I couldn't help\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Words&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Words","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8108,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8108","url_meta":{"origin":9114,"position":1},"title":"Oregon gets the Stanford monkey off their back","author":"Michelle","date":"November 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Another fun day of football. Our team won. It is always better when our team wins. It was a particularly fun tailgater today. It is always good. This one was a little extra good. At one point, after I hugged what seemed like a hundred people in five minutes, someone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Words&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Words","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2223.jpg?fit=551%2C545&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2223.jpg?fit=551%2C545&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2223.jpg?fit=551%2C545&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9116,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9116","url_meta":{"origin":9114,"position":2},"title":"Random notes about being sick","author":"Michelle","date":"January 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"When I am sick, and any relative more than 15 years older is in the house, I feel like a little kid. That is true to some extent at all times, but never more so than when I am sick. \"Maybe,\" my little brother would say, \"it is because you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Words&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Words","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_2470-0.jpg?fit=341%2C391&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7883,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=7883","url_meta":{"origin":9114,"position":3},"title":"And on the seventh day, there was cooking","author":"Michelle","date":"October 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Cooking and company today. Ashley arrived from Eugene and moved into the spare bedroom for...eh...who knows. Until she finds a place of her own. Or doesn't and stays. Or whatever. We'll see. Before she got here, there was much cooking. I do this periodically on a Sunday. Cook several different\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Words&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Words","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10268,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10268","url_meta":{"origin":9114,"position":4},"title":"Chain of fools, metal smithing part 3","author":"Michelle","date":"July 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This week in jewelry class, we learned how to make jump rings and turn them into chains. \u00a0I won't say how cool I thought that was, because you might think I am a nerd.\u00a0 Here is how it works.\u00a0 You take a dowel that is the size of the ring\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Random thoughts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Random thoughts","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=20"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6195,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6195","url_meta":{"origin":9114,"position":5},"title":"Some weeks take a bigger chunk out of you than others","author":"Michelle","date":"June 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Usually I am one of those people who sort of skips blithely through life without incurring much damage. Oh, I've been on fire. I've been held up at gunpoint. I've had way more close calls with sexual assault than I care to think of. People have come in and out\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Words&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Words","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140613-180158-64918395.jpg?fit=454%2C313&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}