{"id":2000,"date":"2010-08-11T03:49:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T03:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/11\/2010-8-10-lucky-html\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T03:49:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T03:49:57","slug":"2010-8-10-lucky-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/2010-8-10-lucky-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Some societies consider visitation by giant beetles to be a good omen (<em>which ones? -ed<\/em> Just go with me on this.). Sure, it was odd to find this minor monster hanging off the screen door a couple days ago&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_557.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_557.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Giant bug.\" \/><\/a> &#8230;but maybe it was a sign. After all, the family was scheduled to stop by my place the next weekend. I wasn&#8217;t sure if I&#8217;d have time to prep the house, fix the broken toilet, clean up the leftover bits of dog. What I needed was another sign. Something that might, I don&#8217;t know, convince me that this wouldn&#8217;t be a complete disaster.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_558.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_558.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"That's quite a lot.\" \/><\/a> Right! All that was left was for the kiddos to arrive&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_559.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_559.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"kewt!\" \/><\/a> &#8230;and maybe line up on the staircase for a picture&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_561.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_561.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kiddos!\" \/><\/a> &#8230;or even collapse the swing together&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_562.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_562.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Smash.\" \/><\/a> Even through my barbequed berry pancakes, minor meltdowns and a whole lot of mosquito bites, we even managed to get together for a great big family photo.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_560.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_560.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"You don't see that every day.\" \/><\/a> Totally worth it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty lucky, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Some societies consider visitation by giant beetles to be a good omen (which ones? -ed Just go with me on this.). Sure, it was odd to find this minor monster hanging off the screen door a couple days ago&#8230; &#8230;but maybe it was a sign. After all, the family was scheduled to stop by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/2010-8-10-lucky-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lucky&#8221;<\/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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,36],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photos","tag-this-amazing-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}