{"id":2079,"date":"2008-08-26T01:19:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T06:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2008-08-26T01:39:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T06:39:54","slug":"growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/friends\/growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll tell you how I know I’m getting old. Sunday night I spent some quality time with a magnum of pinot grigio and several episodes of My So-Called Life<\/i> in the company of some of the funniest (and silliest-dressed) people I’ve ever met. There were rules<\/a>. There were amendments. There was plaid and impossibly tall combat boots. There was angst. <\/p>\n

And I remembered how when that show aired, Jordan Catalano was the hotness. And yes, that Jared Leto sure is pretty. But watching it in 2008? All I could think was how hot the middle-aged dad was. Lord god in heaven, how did I get here?<\/p>\n

Well. We’re all on this ride together, and it ain’t stoppin’, y’all.<\/p>\n

My baby brother turns 21 tomorrow (okay, today, the 26th). I bought him a 12-pack of beer. He and our cousin Jay killed it tonight. They’ve had practice, no doubt.<\/p>\n

\"uh<\/a><\/p>\n

We look a lot a like, me and my brother.<\/p>\n

We spent the evening chatting with Sarah<\/a> and Tamara<\/a> via webcam, and just to show how grown up he is, he kept trying to mack on them all night. I’m all for free love, but there is one thing in the world I won’t tolerate, and that’s my brother sleeping with any of my friends.<\/p>\n

YEESH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll tell you how I know I’m getting old. Sunday night I spent some quality time with a magnum of pinot grigio and several episodes of My So-Called Life in the company of some of the funniest (and silliest-dressed) people I’ve ever met. There were rules. There were amendments. There was plaid and impossibly tall combat boots. There was angst. And I remembered how when that show aired, Jordan Catalano was the hotness. And yes,… <\/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":[72,32,85],"tags":[503,502,504,505,500,2163,2190,501],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-friends","category-the-family","tag-birthday","tag-chatting","tag-drinking","tag-drinking-games","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-television","tag-webcam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-xx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","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=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}