{"id":852,"date":"2012-11-28T09:05:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/?p=852"},"modified":"2012-11-28T09:05:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:05:28","slug":"irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/2012\/11\/28\/irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, its been ~7 months since I&#8217;ve been here!  Hmmm!  I actually had to go back and see what I had last posted.  After reading it, I chuckled to myself because originally, the title for this post was going to be &#8220;One more thing to be thankful for&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many of you probably know that there is a lottery drawing in New England tonight that is expected to be worth more than half a billion dollars.  Some of you also probably know that my BIL had a serious stroke back in the spring.  Why do I bring these two things up now, you&#8217;re probably wondering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When it was announced on Wednesday that there were no winners in the lottery drawing, my husband said to me &#8220;We have to get a couple tickets for Wednesday&#8221; (we don&#8217;t usually play the lottery).  I said to him &#8220;You know, its almost getting too big.  I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s what I&#8217;d want.  It would change our lives.  What would we do?&#8221;  To which he responded, &#8220;Well, I&#8217;d have them take the taxes right off the top, which would cut the amount we&#8217;d get in half.&#8221;  &#8220;Then?&#8221;, I asked.  &#8220;Then, I&#8217;d go back to Vegas and build Tom a brand new home.  I&#8217;d stay there for a month and design it so that his every need would be met.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, THAT is brotherly love!  THAT is what I love about my man!  THAT is what makes me a VERY lucky lady!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, its been ~7 months since I&#8217;ve been here! Hmmm! I actually had to go back and see what I had last posted. After reading it, I chuckled to myself because originally, the title for this post was going to be &#8220;One more thing to be thankful for&#8230;&#8221; Many of you probably know that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}