{"id":1199,"date":"2012-07-29T17:59:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2012-07-29T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T01:00:30","slug":"calm-before-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Calm Before the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been good to have a weekend at home, one where I am pretty much doing chores but chores need to be done and it feels relaxing. \u00a0I got to spend my weekend just catching up on life doing the menial tasks like cleaning, groceries, shopping, running errands like going to the bank, getting fuel, checking out the shops, going out to dinner and just cruising around in the truck.<\/p>\n<p>But this is the last chance I will get for the next few weeks to relax like this. \u00a0I have had a chance to get all those little things done, and now its time for the bedlam to begin. \u00a0I have a busy couple of weekends coming up with more photo time, some fun, friends, food, shopping and my first game at Safeco field and my first Road trip in the truck. \u00a0Can&#8217;t wait!!<\/p>\n<p>I seemed to of lost my last post during the week about my license, which is a shame. \u00a0But during the week I managed to pass my driving test and I am now a licensed driver in the State of Washington. I still passed my test even though I failed the parallel park (but what do you expect when I was in the truck). \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t believe how nervous I was for that test, man it was nerve racking!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I am going to go be lazy for the rest of the afternoon, cook some dinner, catch up on TV shows and just generally bum around! \u00a0o and lots of pics updated in the Expat folder (yeah caught up on that to!)<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:194px;\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" style=\"height:194px;background:url(https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/109346098513022744611\/ExpatLife?authuser=0&#038;feat=embedwebsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-feJsoH9BnSc\/T6NNSWHmK4E\/AAAAAAAAzF4\/7z_cbIpIh6U\/s160-c\/ExpatLife.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin:1px 0 0 4px;\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/109346098513022744611\/ExpatLife?authuser=0&#038;feat=embedwebsite\" style=\"color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;\">Expat Life<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been good to have a weekend at home, one where I am pretty much doing chores but chores need to be done and it feels relaxing. \u00a0I got to spend my weekend just catching up on life doing the menial tasks like cleaning, groceries, shopping, running errands like going to the bank, getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expat","category-life-in-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-jl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}