{"id":2760,"date":"2012-02-24T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2012-02-24T12:48:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:48:03","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2012\/02\/24\/happy-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any by that I mean:<\/p>\n<p>Happy Veterans Day, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Martin Luther King Day, Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, and Happy President&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Yikes, it really has been along time since my last post. I&#8217;ve periodically looked back at my blog in disgust over the past few months. Partially because of the lack of updates, and partially because the photo I included in my last update (in November) was of me in a hula dancer costume from Halloween. Nothing like the image of me in a coconut bra to keep readers away.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, it&#8217;s been a pretty uneventful winter so far. Our trip to San Francisco was a blast. The weather cooperated and the only rainy day was the one when we were driving to Gold Country so it didn&#8217;t matter. Once we arrived there, the weather was beautiful, as was that part of the state. I could live there (it&#8217;s affordable, it&#8217;s pretty, and it&#8217;s only two hours to San Francisco&#8230;perhaps a good choice for retirement).<\/p>\n<p>My holiday season was nice as well&#8230;and it was capped off with a trip to Barcelona. I managed to catch a cold prior to the trip and that morphed into a killer sinus infection while we were in Europe. I didn&#8217;t let it stop us from sight-seeing, but it was pretty damn painful. Still, I did like the city quite a bit. We ended the trip by flying to England and staying with friends for a few days. I finally got to see the English countryside (quite pretty) and got to take some over-the-counter pain-killers containing codeine that are legal there but not in the US&#8230;and that made my sinus infection a bit more manageable for the final days of the vacation. Still, it took a week of antibiotics once I returned to Boston\u00a0to finally get rid of it.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, this winter has been the best winter EVER for weather in Boston. Just over 7 inches of snow and it&#8217;s nearly March (and most of that snow fell in October). Temperatures mostly in the 40&#8217;s with quite a handful of days in the 50&#8217;s. AHHHHHH!<\/p>\n<p>On a sad note, unfortunately, my father took a spill and broke his hip. He went in for surgery a little over a week ago and seems to be doing quite well in his recuperation at the rehab hospital. I plan to head down to the Cape again this weekend to visit him, and to celebrate his 83rd birthday.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s about it for the past few months. Hopefully I&#8217;ll post again in a shorter time span with some more exciting news than I had to share for the past few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any by that I mean: Happy Veterans Day, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Martin Luther King Day, Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, and Happy President&#8217;s Day. \u00a0Yikes, it really has been along time since my last post. I&#8217;ve periodically looked back at my blog in disgust over the past few months. Partially because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}