{"id":3685,"date":"2020-01-20T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2020-01-20T19:43:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T19:43:32","slug":"another-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/another-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20190916ff\/20200119-ChristmasTreeLightsEvening-DSC08758-329.JPG?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"right\">This household&#8217;s Christmas tree lights were lit last night.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d kept the tree, decorations and all up well past Epiphany to be ready for a visit that started last night.<\/p>\n<p>Number two daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter arrived yesterday. We had a good visit, opened (slightly belated) Christmas presents, and stayed up later than is our habit. Or should that be are our habits?<\/p>\n<p>The two adults set off to another destination this morning, so we&#8217;ll have an extended visit with granddaughter. I&#8217;ve read a few age-appropriate books with her, #3 daughter and wife have played with her. And at the moment I&#8217;m enjoying hearing her play: two rooms over.<\/p>\n<p>On the &#8216;up&#8217; side, we&#8217;re having a fine visit. On the &#8216;not-so-up&#8217; (notsoup???) side, I don&#8217;t expect to be getting much writing done. But I do expect to enjoy the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly-related posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/another-death-in-the-family\/\">Another Death in the Family<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(December 28, 2019)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/enjoying-another-christmas\/\">Enjoying Another Christmas<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(December 16, 2019)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/another-saturday\/\">Another Saturday<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(October 26, 2019)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/estate-sale\/\">Estate Sale<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(March 12, 2019)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/may-5-2018-pre-brillig-writing-progress\/\">May 5, 2018: Pre-Brillig Writing Progress<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(May 5, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This household&#8217;s Christmas tree lights were lit last night. We&#8217;d kept the tree, decorations and all up well past Epiphany to be ready for a visit that started last night. Number two daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter arrived yesterday. We had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/another-visit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[13,84,12],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-blogging","tag-family","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-Xr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}