{"id":1649,"date":"2006-09-15T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/15\/so-many-parties-little-time\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T20:03:00","slug":"so-many-parties-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/15\/so-many-parties-little-time\/","title":{"rendered":"So many parties, little time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kids have been seriously getting their party on lately.  Friday night, faculty hosted a party for the doctoral students (aka: meet the fresh meat night). Wednesday, car trouble lead to a fun impromptu party for Aya (Will&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">amor<\/span>).  And last night, Eva hosted doctoral students again for a dinner party (Happy Guatemalan Independence Day!)<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_9699.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_9699.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Celebrating Aya&#8217;s birthday on Wednesday gave us an opportunity to give her the birthday present we had for her (harmonica and recorder sets).  I was nervous that Will would get confused and think it was for him.  Was I wrong!  He saw the package and before anyone could say a word, grabbed it and brought it to Aya saying, &#8220;Surprise, Aya!  Happy Birthday!  Present for YOU!&#8221;  Even more impressive, once open, they happily shared the harmonica and recorder with no fighting whatsoever.  The rest of the night they marched around playing in a &#8220;parade.&#8221;  What totally awesome kids.  Kate was <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">enthralled<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids have been seriously getting their party on lately. Friday night, faculty hosted a party for the doctoral students (aka: meet the fresh meat night). Wednesday, car trouble lead to a fun impromptu party for Aya (Will&#8217;s amor). And last night, Eva hosted doctoral students again for a dinner party (Happy Guatemalan Independence Day!)Celebrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}