{"id":201,"date":"2005-05-17T19:52:04","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T01:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squids.ca\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/17\/must-boast-about-second-child\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T19:52:04","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T01:52:04","slug":"must-boast-about-second-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Must Boast About Second Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Day for the Lump. First he won his doubles tennis 6-1, 6-3 against dreaded Oconomowoc. Then at the Forensics banquet, he won  the trophy for the Best Sophomore, and came third overall in points. Excellent, eh?<\/p>\n<p>We picked up Brady at  OHare airport on Sat night&#8230;big delays as usual (thunderstorms and hail in D.C.), he was in Greensboro N.C. with a couple of lady friends. Plane was due at 10:00, arrived at 11:47. OHare closes at midnite&#8230;.amazingly. So, Viv and I sat in a deserted Terminal 2 (no food, no drink, no newspapers) and counted the tiles peeling on the roof. Once he arrived, with 2 bags weighing 70 lbs each, I had by then forgotten where the car was&#8230;.so we walked through the night until we found 1 CUBS and the car. Got home at 3 AM.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that we ate at Bob Chinn&#8217;s Crab Shack in Wheeling, Ill&#8230;.I passed up the NZ Green lipped mussels (cuz I can&#8217;t abide eating the lips off a mussel, especially if they are GREEN&#8230;Viv had amberjack sashimi, and an entree of Kona crab. I had coconut shrimp (cliche that I am) and an entree of Halibut in beer batter. Dessert was key lime pie and Purple passion pie.Place is HUGE&#8230;seats 700 at a time. Had to be 120 people waiting.  WILD.<\/p>\n<p>Weather is still cool here&#8230;could do with a fireplace, but sob&#8230;don&#8217;t have one.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinated to hear how those pesky warts are going, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Day for the Lump. First he won his doubles tennis 6-1, 6-3 against dreaded Oconomowoc. Then at the Forensics banquet, he won the trophy for the Best Sophomore, and came third overall in points. Excellent, eh? We picked up Brady at OHare airport on Sat night&#8230;big delays as usual (thunderstorms and hail in D.C.),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}