{"id":374,"date":"2006-06-05T09:16:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=374"},"modified":"2006-06-05T09:16:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T14:16:05","slug":"relaxing-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/06\/05\/relaxing-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"“Relaxing” weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were off to sunny Lake Zurich, IL<\/a>, to visit my friend A.J. and his family over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a nice trip.\u00c2\u00a0 We went to the Brookfield Zoo<\/a> with the kids on Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 Ava was afraid of the merry-go-round and the dolphin show, but she loved looking at the baboons.\u00c2\u00a0 On the drive home yesterday Ava spiked a fever, but Leah got on it pretty quickly and was able to keep it fairly low overnight.<\/p>\n

The new Subaru got 27.6 mpg on the way over to IL, which isn’t so bad.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that we’re selling the Volvo, I’m finding that a lot of people pay very close attention to what a car gets for gas mileage.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve never paid any attention with the Volvo, for two reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 First, the Volvo had a number of things to recommend it when we began car shopping, and fuel efficiency wasn’t at the top of our list.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want an AWD wagon loaded with the Volvo’s safety features, you’re not going to get 34 mpg on the highway.\u00c2\u00a0 Second, I’m not a gratuitous driver.\u00c2\u00a0 If I can just as easily get somewhere on my bike, I take my bike.\u00c2\u00a0 If I absolutely have <\/em>to drive, then I drive.\u00c2\u00a0 And if I have to drive, what’s the point of tallying my mpg?<\/p>\n

I have to vote tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 As near as I can tell, we’re two of the maybe four people in Iowa City who’re voting for Nick Maybanks<\/a> for County Attorney. \u00c2\u00a0 Ah well.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s young.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s plenty of time for him to make his mark in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 My mother-in-law is a Fallon supporter, which guarantees that he won’t prevail.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I caught his TV ad the other night and was impressed by it.\u00c2\u00a0 What, this guy’s going to every county in Iowa twice<\/em>?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a lot of handshakes and diner pie.\u00c2\u00a0 I like his style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were off to sunny Lake Zurich, IL, to visit my friend A.J. and his family over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a nice trip.\u00c2\u00a0 We went to the Brookfield Zoo with the kids on Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 Ava was afraid of the merry-go-round and the dolphin show, but she loved looking at the baboons.\u00c2\u00a0 On the drive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-62","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}