{"id":2238,"date":"2016-02-24T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2016-03-02T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:30:19","slug":"i-get-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"I Get To!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel privileged to be trusted with doing the laundry and the dishes. These chores appeal to a simple part of me that express my willingness to help. But I also get to do so much more!   <br \/>&#160; \u2013 sing songs that I\u2019ve loved from childhood, such as \u201cIt\u2019s a Grand Night for Singing,\u201d etc. I\u2019ve enjoyed singing in the chorus for almost 18 years. Wow! Before that I held Song Fests for the nascent community as it was building up. Before that I hosted song fests a couple times a year for the previous many years.     <br \/>&#160; \u2013 dance dances that I know, and I\u2019m getting okay at ballroom dancing (some 65 years), square dancing 22 years, folk dancing (on and off for 40 plus years), round dancing 18 years&#8230; lotta fun.    <br \/>&#160; \u2013 draw cartoons all my life, it seems. At least 70 plus years.    <br \/>&#160; \u2013 philosophize about the Cosmos, or maybe just fantasize. <\/p>\n<p>I get to so many things. I get to help Allee and be helped by her and enjoy what in my Oxytocin-saturated mind is the sweetest most beautiful and lots of other mosts in the world, maybe the universe herself. I get to be a pal and have some pals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel privileged to be trusted with doing the laundry and the dishes. These chores appeal to a simple part of me that express my willingness to help. But I also get to do so much more! &#160; \u2013 sing songs that I\u2019ve loved from childhood, such as \u201cIt\u2019s a Grand Night for Singing,\u201d etc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-whassup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}