{"id":151,"date":"2001-08-31T17:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-09-01T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-08-26T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T19:21:28","slug":"no-driving-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2001\/08\/31\/no-driving-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"No-driving weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m back, and already it feels like i never left. to get home from the airport on tuesday, i took the 90 to the 405 to the 10 to the 110 to the 101. hello, freeways. i didn&#8217;t miss you at all.<\/p>\n<p>the weekend was near perfect: a lot of sitting and talking and drinking and eating and walking and shopping and sleeping and breathing, slowly. a lot of remember whens and i can&#8217;t believes. a lot of introductions and nice to meet yous. old friends, new friends and my <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:alert('i have two big brothers, one older -- and bigger -- than the other, hence the silly name.');\" title=\"footnote\">little big brother<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>on monday afternoon, i lay atop a hill overlooking seattle, with my satchel as my pillow, the sunshine warming my face and no place i had to be. and that, my dear, is vacation.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">*<\/div>\n<p><b>pasalubongs brought home:<\/b><br \/>\neeyore pez dispensers: 2<br \/>\nvivace dolce blend espresso: 1\/2 lb<br \/>\nplastic hyena figurine: 1<br \/>\nhello kitty lip candy tin: 2<br \/>\nsmoked salmon: 1 lb.<\/p>\n<p><b>fun things acquired:<\/b><br \/>\nleopard print slap bracelet: 1<br \/>\npeter, paul &amp;amp;amp; mary cd: 1<br \/>\ncopy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resonancemag.com\" title=\"resonancemag.com\">resonance<\/a> magazine: 1<br \/>\npackets of herbs for tea: 3<br \/>\ncocktail mermaids: 4<br \/>\ntravel-size bottles: 3<br \/>\n<a href=\"javascript:alert('thanks to the tutelage of ricky, one of these was handcrafted by me');\" title=\"footnote\">handmade<\/a> books: 3<br \/>\nolympus d-500L digital camera(!): 1<!--ricky pawned it off on me, and while i didn't really think i should be spending the extra cash, i figured i owed it to him, since he spoiled me silly while i was in town and i know how much he wants to buy the new digital elph. lucky for you, this means more images soon. i know you're excited.--><\/p>\n<p><b>things i learned:<\/b><br \/>\ngeese have enormously long tongues.<br \/>\ni have become extremely <a href=\"javascript:alert('izone camera, cellphone, handspring visor &amp;amp;amp; ibook -- what the hell was i thinking?');\" title=\"footnote\">battery dependent<\/a>.<br \/>\nizone photos are best in low light.<br \/>\ni am the way i am largely because of <a href=\"javascript:alert('i had almost forgotten how much i have learned from him, how much he has influenced me, how much i used to--and still do--adore him');\" title=\"footnote\">my brother<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m back, and already it feels like i never left. to get home from the airport on tuesday, i took the 90 to the 405 to the 10 to the 110 to the 101. hello, freeways. i didn&#8217;t miss you at all. the weekend was near perfect: a lot of sitting and talking and drinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}