{"id":45,"date":"2008-03-15T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/2008\/03\/politics-and-surprises\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T22:03:00","slug":"politics-and-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/2008\/03\/politics-and-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Aunt Sumi who&#8217;s interning for Obama, Liam is now making his first political statement. Actually, he&#8217;s making his first political statement about me, but luckily it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/photos\/sprocket2\/slides\/IMG_2129.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/photos\/sprocket2\/slides\/IMG_2129.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>This evening I got to do something really fun. My friend GF is in The Hague to teach for a week and she wanted to surprise our friend BG in Amsterdam, which sounded like a lot of fun. So, a few weeks ago I very nonchalantly invited her for dinner tonight as though nothing was going on &#8211; we&#8217;d been planning to get together anyway and I was very smooth arranging the date. Ivo then picked GF up after he got off work and brought her in after him. This was BG&#8217;s reaction &#8211; I&#8217;ve never seen anyone rendered literally speechless, let alone BG!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/photos\/sprocket2\/slides\/IMG_2130.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/photos\/sprocket2\/slides\/IMG_2130.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/photos\/sprocket2\/slides\/IMG_2131.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/photos\/sprocket2\/slides\/IMG_2131.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/photos\/sprocket2\/slides\/IMG_2132.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/photos\/sprocket2\/slides\/IMG_2132.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Aunt Sumi who&#8217;s interning for Obama, Liam is now making his first political statement. Actually, he&#8217;s making his first political statement about me, but luckily it&#8217;s true. This evening I got to do something really fun. My friend &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/2008\/03\/politics-and-surprises\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}