{"id":857,"date":"2004-11-19T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T19:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=857"},"modified":"2004-11-19T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2004-11-19T19:09:18","slug":"seattle-the-good-the-bad-and-the-adorable-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Seattle: The Good, The Bad, and the Adorable (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from 9 days in Seattle.  Danke to Rick, Eileen, and Nikkiana for guestblogging for me.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"chrisjenjon.jpg\" alt=\"Jon, me, and Chris\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good<\/strong><br \/>\n-seeing my parents, brother, and his girlfriend for the first time in 6 months<br \/>\n-seeing my godmother and her husband for the first time in 2 1\/2 years<br \/>\n-seeing parts of my extended family for the first time in between 1 and 1 1\/2 years<br \/>\n-seeing my friend Melissa for the first time in 2 1\/2 years<br \/>\n-seeing Jon&#8217;s aunt and uncle for the first time in 2 years<br \/>\n-meeting Chris of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingunderstood.org\">SomethingUnderstood.Org<\/a><br \/>\n-going to the zoo and Pike Place Market<br \/>\n-playing Uno with my little cousins<br \/>\n-hanging out with my brother&#8217;s girlfriend (who I really hope will be my sister-in-law someday)<br \/>\n-getting to see Anacortes and the Pacific Ocean<br \/>\n-vanilla nonfat latt\u00e9s from $tarbuck$<br \/>\n-Jon&#8217;s aunt&#8217;s cats<br \/>\n-doing <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000065U6I\/ref=pd_sim_video_2\/102-0083438-6645761?v=glance&#038;s=video&#038;n=507846#product-details\">yoga<\/a> with Jon&#8217;s cousin Libby<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bad<\/strong><br \/>\n-the 36 hours I was up on the way to Seattle<br \/>\n-the 36 hours I was up on the way back from Seattle<br \/>\n-saying good-byes to people<br \/>\n-Seattle traffic<br \/>\n-the nausea I&#8217;ve been fighting for a few days<br \/>\n-having to run from the end of the E terminal to the end of the C terminal at MSP to get to my flight to Sioux Falls, having an asthma attack on the way, and having to flag down a cart to get me the last mile to my gate<br \/>\n-finding out that Northwest Airlines had messed up and sold my seat on the Sioux Falls flight and having to tell them to FIX IT<br \/>\n-the drive from Madison to Sioux Falls and back<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Adorable<\/strong><br \/>\n-Melissa&#8217;s twin siblings<br \/>\n-my cousins Benjamin and Nathaniel<br \/>\n-Jon&#8217;s cousin Libby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from 9 days in Seattle. Danke to Rick, Eileen, and Nikkiana for guestblogging for me. \ud83d\ude42 The Good -seeing my parents, brother, and his girlfriend for the first time in 6 months -seeing my godmother and her husband &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=857\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-dP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}