{"id":325,"date":"2008-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2008-01-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T00:00:00","slug":"2-birds-1-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"2 Birds 1 Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diana&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s party was excellent as always.  Endless good discussion, and some fond farewells and goodlucks.  And more food than you can shake a crystallized fondue fountain at.  There&#8217;s a beauty in never knowing when a Rocky party will hit its high.  For me, it was after most people had left, with the phrase &#8220;moist pussy shit&#8221;, and the surrounding discussion such as only Rockies can have.<\/p>\n<p>Below are my pictures from visiting my sister in Utah.  My brother Terrence has discovered the apathy game, but he isn&#8217;t very good at it and tries too hard.  I love my nieces!  I hope they get out of Mormanland alive.  But while there, at least they can appreciate the god-smackingly gorgeous Zion National Park.  Serene [eldest niece] trekked a good trail without any help, despite Joe&#8217;s [my step-dad] over-bearing parentalism.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=196\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0421.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"58\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Joe, Serene, Jasmine\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Joe, Serene, Jasmine<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=197\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0422.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Mom, Terry, Jarrah, Joe\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Mom, Terry, Jarrah, Joe<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0425.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Jade\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Jade<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=199\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0423.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Terrence\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Terrence<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0427.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Sandy Hollow\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Sandy Hollow<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0431.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Sandy Hollow\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Sandy Hollow<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=202\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0434.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Sandy Hollow\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Sandy Hollow<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0436.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Sandy Hollow\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Sandy Hollow<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0438.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Serene in Zion\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Serene in Zion<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0441.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Zion National Park\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Zion National Park<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0444.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Bird in Zion\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Bird in Zion<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/details.php?image_id=207\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/pics\/data\/thumbnails\/6\/CIMG0445.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"86\" alt=\"Along the Trail\" \/><\/a>      <br \/>\n      <b>Along the Trail<\/b>\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>This year&#8217;s holiday season has been the best in recent memory, and full to overflowing.  But I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s over, because the next six months are filling up fast.<\/p>\n<p>My friends are truly incredible people.  But as wonderful as you all are, I&#8217;ve never seen anything as beautiful as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowland.harvard.edu\/labs\/bacteria\/showmovie.php?mov=styph_p_swarm_2h_1\">swarming bacteria here<\/a>. Talk about god-smacking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s party was excellent as always. Endless good discussion, and some fond farewells and goodlucks. And more food than you can shake a crystallized fondue fountain at. There&#8217;s a beauty in never knowing when a Rocky party will hit its high. For me, it was after most people had left, with the phrase &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 Birds 1 Stone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}