{"id":194,"date":"2005-06-10T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T18:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2005-06-10T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T18:17:55","slug":"my-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2005\/06\/10\/my-last-day\/","title":{"rendered":"My Last Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I head to Europe for a month of teaching in Brussels and Ireland.  My wife will join me for a week, but the kids will stay home.  It will be the longest I&#8217;ve ever been away from the kids.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we went to Friendly&#8217;s for a little &#8220;last meal&#8221; before I leave.  Lord willing, I&#8217;ll be back home in mid-July for the rest of the summer, and we&#8217;ll have lots of time together after that.  But, it felt a little like I wasn&#8217;t coming back.  It made me think of what I would want to do if I knew I really wasn&#8217;t coming back.  And it struck me that I was doing exactly that &#8212; a cheesburger and ice cream with my wife and kids.  Thank God for these wonderful little moments of <em>life<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I head to Europe for a month of teaching in Brussels and Ireland. My wife will join me for a week, but the kids will stay home. It will be the longest I&#8217;ve ever been away from the kids. Last night we went to Friendly&#8217;s for a little &#8220;last meal&#8221; before I leave. Lord [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-38","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}