{"id":1019,"date":"2006-09-13T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2006-09-13T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T07:08:00","slug":"ways-to-make-your-budding-spinster-aunt-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/ways-to-make-your-budding-spinster-aunt-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways to make your budding spinster aunt proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/hammock2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1248\/288\/320\/hammock2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><font size=\"1\">Casey<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Make a 98 on your band entrance test and remember exactly which two questions you got wrong<br \/>\u2022 Decide to follow in your uncle&#8217;s footsteps and play snare drum, which your aunt sorta wishes she&#8217;d played too<br \/>\u2022 Say, &#8220;I would never, ever, ever quit band!&#8221;*<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/hammock1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1248\/288\/320\/hammock1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><font size=\"1\">Patrick<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Chant &#8220;eggs! eggs! chooooocolate!&#8221; in the background while your brother tries to speak to your budding spinster aunt on the phone<br \/>\u2022 Say &#8220;I like choooocolate&#8221; as a salutation when your brother passes the phone to you<br \/>\u2022 Recount that time a few weeks ago when you nearly gave your step-dad&#8217;s friend &#8212; who is deathly afraid of snakes &#8212; quite a heart attack when you pranked him with a rubber snake<br \/>\u2022 Say &#8220;chooooocolate&#8221; instead of goodbye when it&#8217;s time to hang up<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I can&#8217;t wait to take these kids to Universal Studios. We are going to have a fantastic time, Deo volente.<\/p>\n<p>*<font size=\"1\">Don&#8217;t worry \u2014 I explained to him that he shouldn&#8217;t ever feel pressured to stay in band in some day he decides he doesn&#8217;t want to be in it. I&#8217;m not heartless!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey \u2022 Make a 98 on your band entrance test and remember exactly which two questions you got wrong\u2022 Decide to follow in your uncle&#8217;s footsteps and play snare drum, which your aunt sorta wishes she&#8217;d played too\u2022 Say, &#8220;I would never, ever, ever quit band!&#8221;* Patrick \u2022 Chant &#8220;eggs! eggs! chooooocolate!&#8221; in the background while your brother tries to speak to your budding spinster aunt on the phone\u2022 Say &#8220;I like choooocolate&#8221; as a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-gr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}