{"id":453,"date":"2003-03-05T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/05\/"},"modified":"2003-03-05T01:07:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-05T01:07:00","slug":"453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/05\/453\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<table columns=2>\n<tr>\n<td><image src=\"homealone.jpg\" alt=\"Better to be home alone than in bed with Jacko!\" border=0 height=120 width=100><\/td>\n<td valign=\"center\">\n<div>Phew! After working at least a few hours 27 of the preceding 28 days, I declared a holiday and stayed home alone yesterday while Janet went to work.<\/p>\n<div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Of course, there wasn&#8217;t much to it. Papa John came and got Emily a little after 9:00, and the guy from the cabinet shop showed up at 9:30 to hang the new cabinet doors over the bathtub. Then I took a bath (the tub was declared seaworthy as of Friday, and I&#8217;ve had 5 baths already) and drove down to Kaiser Roseville Medical Center to find out that &#8216;fasting&#8217; also meant &#8216;no coffee.&#8217; After that, a quick lunch, a couple of beers, and a nap, and then by 5:15 or so, up to get Emily at John&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p>Someday, I would like to try spending a substantial, uninterrupted period of time by myself. I&#8217;m pretty sure the longest I&#8217;ve ever been alone is only like 4 or 5 days, if that, and I can&#8217;t really think when that would have been, except maybe a thanksgiving break during college when my roomate went home and I hung out in our room. I like being alone, but I seldom get the chance, and then, since I know it&#8217;s limited to a few hours, I try to do too much instead of just enjoying some quiet time to myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew! After working at least a few hours 27 of the preceding 28 days, I declared a holiday and stayed home alone yesterday while Janet went to work. Of course, there wasn&#8217;t much to it. Papa John came and got Emily a little after 9:00, and the guy from the cabinet shop showed up at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/05\/453\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}