{"id":984,"date":"2009-02-14T21:58:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T02:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2009-02-14T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T03:12:08","slug":"happy-v-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/happy-v-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy V Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/3280469454\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3269\/3280469454_867881ae46_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Happy Valentines day, everyone! I almost feel guilty about abandoning Kristian for the weekend. Almost. Because, you know, he spent the day drinking beer and hanging out with a buddy that he hasn&#8217;t seen in a while. So, he couldn&#8217;t be happier. And, my sister Christina and I are currently babysitting so that our older sister can go on a much appreciated date with her husband. Which means that I&#8217;m being noble. Which means that Kristian&#8217;s not allowed to get mad at me.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I bought him a balloon before we left that said &#8220;I love you a latte&#8221; and was shaped like a (rather phallic) coffee beverage.<\/p>\n<p>That has to count for something.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Hallmark and mylar holiday, after all.<\/p>\n<p>We had an exciting day of sleeping on the bus followed by eating snacks on the bus followed by watching youtube videos on the bus. There was a brief stop at a Roy Rogers, where I purchased the only thing on the menu that didn&#8217;t look absolutely disgusting. Namely, two bottles of water. Then it was onward and NYCward. We made our way out to Brooklyn and that&#8217;s when it got totally crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did we attend a birthday party for a small child, but there was cake. And goodie bags. And I pretended that I was a monster and chased the birthday boy around, screaming &#8220;Rawr! I&#8217;m going to eat you!&#8221; I was also a dinosaur at some point, but those are pretty much the same.<\/p>\n<p>There was also an unfortunate event involving small fingers and a door, but let&#8217;s not get into that.<\/p>\n<p>(Let&#8217;s just say that I might be the worst aunt ever)<\/p>\n<p>(And there were a lot of tears)<\/p>\n<p>We had some authentic New York pizza for dinner, but it was not famous, original or Ray&#8217;s. We also played baseball in the living room. I figured, hell if I&#8217;m going to be the worst aunt ever, I might as well have some fun while I&#8217;m at it.<\/p>\n<p>So, there you have it. My crazy Saturday in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Valentines day, everyone! I almost feel guilty about abandoning Kristian for the weekend. Almost. Because, you know, he spent the day drinking beer and hanging out with a buddy&hellip;<\/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":[8,4,2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photos","category-random","category-the-great-blog-off"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-fS","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\/984","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=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}