{"id":18293,"date":"2020-12-13T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=18293"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:21:04","slug":"i-wish-id-brought-the-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=18293","title":{"rendered":"I Wish I&#8217;d Brought the Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?attachment_id=18307\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18307\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM3436X-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM3436X-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM3436X-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM3436X-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM3436X-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM3436X-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM3436X-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Christmas in Antarctica originally posted by Linda Lou Burton December 13, 2005 from Seattle, Washington, United States &#8211; <\/em>Overheard in line waiting to get into the theater for a play that has been long sold out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Husband: Gee, I wish I&#8217;d brought the piano.<\/li>\n<li>Wife: Oh, you&#8217;d play for us while we wait?<\/li>\n<li>Husband: No, I left the tickets on top of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well folks, I&#8217;m checking the top of the piano right now: passport, check; plane tickets, check; cameras and batteries and memory cards and backup this and backup that, check, check, check. Fancy-schmancy luggage sitting by the door.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m spending CHRISTMAS in Antarctica!<\/p>\n<p>Had the family over Sunday, talked to the ones far away, spent the afternoon getting a pedicure, can I get any more relaxed? Housesitter coming, backups ready-when-needed, mail on hold, weather clear and cold, looks like a full moon or nearly. Next time you hear from me I&#8217;ll be south of the equator. Everything is dang nigh perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Oops, Alex T Cat just barfed all over the carpet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas in Antarctica originally posted by Linda Lou Burton December 13, 2005 from Seattle, Washington, United States &#8211; Overheard in line waiting to get into the theater for a play that has been long sold out: Husband: Gee, I wish I&#8217;d brought the piano. Wife: Oh, you&#8217;d play for us while we wait? Husband: No, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4118],"tags":[4119,244,1611,734],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18308,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18293\/revisions\/18308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}