{"id":663,"date":"2008-06-24T21:26:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T03:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/06\/24\/here-and-there\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T21:26:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T03:26:29","slug":"here-and-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/here-and-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Here and There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever considered getting certified to scuba dive, take a look at Sam Neylan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/musingswithsam.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/23\/open-watercert\/\">pros and cons<\/a>.&nbsp; Now that I&#8217;m convinced, I live in the middle of a barren wasteland.&nbsp; (While you&#8217;re there, you might note that she has at least 7 links to me on her blog.)<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;I know that person&#8221; category: Heather Donckels won <em>first<\/em> prize in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rna.org\/chandler.php\">national contest<\/a> on religious writing.&nbsp; If you know her, write her and tell her that she rocks!<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;that could&#8217;ve been us&#8221; category: Last Sunday a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/latestnews\/stories\/062308dnmetplanofatal.2b573c1a.html\">family of five<\/a> was driving home from church about one mile from where we live when they were hit by a car and all killed.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;these guys are brilliant&#8221; category: One Texas congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=e-LOtKIIKcg\">makes fun<\/a> of the law to require CFL lightbulbs (video; gets good about halfway through).<\/p>\n<p>In our family, Mark has now passed to swimming level 4, all the kids are enjoying the swimming pool in the nearly 100-degree heat, Kelli is moving around better on her &#8220;scooter,&#8221; and I am preparing for a French reading exam on Friday.&nbsp; The boys are in a &#8220;reading contest&#8221; sponsored by the church and are reading a lot.&nbsp; It&#8217;s amazing how far they have come in one year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever considered getting certified to scuba dive, take a look at Sam Neylan&#8217;s pros and cons.&nbsp; Now that I&#8217;m convinced, I live in the middle of a barren wasteland.&nbsp; (While you&#8217;re there, you might note that she has at least 7 links to me on her blog.) In the &#8220;I know that person&#8221;\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/here-and-there\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}