Happy Evacuation Day!<\/p>\n
What is Evacuation Day, you might ask? Well, it is the day that the British “evacuated” from Boston. And it just so conveniently<\/em> happens to fall on Saint Patrick’s Day. Every year. It is “celebrated” in Boston, Somerville and Cambridge. And nowhere else.<\/p>\n So, yeah, basically it’s an excuse to give a bunch of schoolkids and city employees the day off on Saint Patrick’s Day. The saddest thing about moving from public to private schools (oh the horrors of a top-rate education) is that I no longer got the day off on Evacuation Day. Most of my friends had never even heard<\/em> of this wondrous holiday. That’s what you get for growing up in Newton, I suppose.<\/p>\n How did I spend my Evacuation Day? Sprawled out on the couch, staring off into space and attempting to forget that I was in hour 32 of headache watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n Aren’t the headaches supposed to come after<\/em> Saint Patrick’s Day? Shouldn’t I be calling in sick tomorrow?<\/p>\n Anyways, I hope that you all had a lovely day full of Shamrock Shakes and green beer. We had a delicious boiled dinner, so I am certainly not complaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anymore.<\/p>\n For now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Evacuation Day! What is Evacuation Day, you might ask? Well, it is the day that the British “evacuated” from Boston. And it just so conveniently happens to fall on…<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-the-great-blog-off"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-jc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}