{"id":248,"date":"2008-05-17T23:27:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T05:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2008-05-17T23:27:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T05:27:52","slug":"one-week-ago-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/one-week-ago-saturday-2","title":{"rendered":"One Week Ago :: Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alarm went off at 5:00 AM and George headed to his closet to get dressed. At 5:05 he went to put his suitcase on the porch. The driver wasn&#8217;t expected for another 20 minutes, but George wanted to be ready as soon as he pulled up. Twenty second later I hear &#8220;Uh, sweetie, he&#8217;s already here.&#8221; So, at 5:07 AM I&#8217;m outside waving bye to George for a week.<\/p>\n<p>The phone rang at 8:10 AM. I knew George&#8217;s first flight had just landed in Houston. Only it wasn&#8217;t George calling. It was Kat calling from Gran&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mom, did you know that Daddy put notes in our suitcase for us?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Then, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I got a dollar for my tooth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>I commented about the tooth fairy finding her at Gran&#8217;s house. <\/p>\n<p>To that she replied, &#8220;Mom, you know, I KNOW the secret!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sweet girl. They are having fun.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 9 the phone rang again. This time it was George and he had only a few minutes to talk. <\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/flight%20to%20el%20salvador.jpg\" alt=\"Flight Tracker\" width=350 \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I watched the flight status online until they took off. Then Bear and I headed out to get a few things done. When we returned home, I had a phone message from George saying they had arrived safely. Later that evening I received a text message from him saying that they were now at their hotel and it was quite nice. A phone call, a message on the machine, and a text message. Three in one day. How nice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alarm went off at 5:00 AM and George headed to his closet to get dressed. At 5:05 he went to put his suitcase on the porch. The driver wasn&#8217;t expected for another 20 minutes, but George wanted to be ready as soon as he pulled up. Twenty second later I hear &#8220;Uh, sweetie, he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}