{"id":1955,"date":"2009-04-18T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2009-04-18T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T15:50:31","slug":"so-mom-kept-saying-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/so-mom-kept-saying-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"so mom kept saying to me,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;grace, where are the photos of our trip to miami?&#8221;\u00a0 she did an excellent job of not nagging me about them, and i finally at least printed some of them out for her and they looked good so i decided i&#8217;d better post some of them right now.<\/p>\n<p>the problem was, first, the death of honey.\u00a0 i didn&#8217;t feel like doing much of anything, especially computer-wise.<\/p>\n<p>then, the susan boyle phenomenon.\u00a0 every time i did turn on the computer, i had to obsessively read all the stuff about her, so i didn&#8217;t get anything done on the computer.<\/p>\n<p>finally, here are a few photos.\u00a0 this first one is the pool at the hotel.\u00a0 in the background there, in the midst of all the palm trees in the very back is a little sandy area with hammocks.\u00a0 in the front, you can see a little bit of table &#8211; that was the open-air restaurant where we had breakfast every morning.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s such a lovely place, but this is where there was that DJ convention going on the first night, and the place was totally trashed and filled with drunk dancing people who were all invading my personal space as i tried to push my way past them and out the back gate to the beach.\u00a0 the next morning the workers did a mighty job cleaning the place up.\u00a0 they did excellent work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1956\" title=\"crop-1\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/crop-1.jpg\" alt=\"crop-1\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i love birds.\u00a0 i always want to take pictures of them.\u00a0 here are a couple.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1957\" title=\"crop-2\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/crop-2.jpg\" alt=\"crop-2\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1958\" title=\"crop-3\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/crop-3.jpg\" alt=\"crop-3\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this is part of a panorama shot i took in the early morning on monday, our first day there.\u00a0\u00a0 it was cool because it was so quiet and deserted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1959\" title=\"crop-4\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/crop-4.jpg\" alt=\"crop-4\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s the first panorama, which i realize is too large for the screen here, but i like it anyway.\u00a0 this was at the same time that first morning, before all the people arrived at the beach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1960\" title=\"miami-panorama-crop-copy\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/miami-panorama-crop-copy-1024x230.jpg\" alt=\"miami-panorama-crop-copy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and here&#8217;s the another view. i don&#8217;t know why this one didn&#8217;t line up so well; maybe it&#8217;s because the sun was so different from the different angles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1965\" title=\"miami-panorama-2\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/miami-panorama-2.jpg\" alt=\"miami-panorama-2\" width=\"810\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1966\" title=\"miami-panorama-3\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/miami-panorama-3.jpg\" alt=\"miami-panorama-3\" width=\"780\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this panorama was taken later in the day, when it was pretty crowded.<\/p>\n<p>more later. pretty soon i have to get ready to go to a wedding.\u00a0 it feels very unnatural to me that i&#8217;m about to get all fancied up this early in the day.\u00a0 but it probably wouldn&#8217;t be appropriate to show up in my red flannel dog print jammies, even though i&#8217;m very very comfortable like this.<\/p>\n<p>ok then,<\/p>\n<p>saturday morning grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;grace, where are the photos of our trip to miami?&#8221;\u00a0 she did an excellent job of not nagging me about them, and i finally at least printed some of them out for her and they looked good so i decided i&#8217;d better post some of them right now. the problem was, first, the death of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JLYy-vx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}