{"id":33,"date":"2008-11-05T18:05:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T01:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-11-05T18:05:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T01:05:38","slug":"33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/33\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/alexnobama.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/alexnobama.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"alexnobama\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/alexnobama.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mnt\/local\/home\/sherlonya\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/alexnobama.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mnt\/local\/home\/sherlonya\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/alexnobama.jpg?w=2250&amp;ssl=1 2250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, I got Alex&#8217;s school pictures. When I got inside after work and put everything down on the counter, there I saw my son&#8217;s picture alongside Barack Obama. I loved the image and felt compelled to record it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/blbeanswpotato.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/blbeanswpotato.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"blbeanswpotato\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/blbeanswpotato.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mnt\/local\/home\/sherlonya\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/blbeanswpotato.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mnt\/local\/home\/sherlonya\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/blbeanswpotato.jpg?w=2250&amp;ssl=1 2250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFor the fall\/Thanksgiving project, today&#8217;s theme was sweet potatoes. For dinner, I made Black Bean and Sweet Potato Burritos from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dolce-Vegan-Livin-Made-Easy\/dp\/1551521873\"><em>La Dolce Vegan!<\/em><\/a>. I&#8217;ve made them before and wasn&#8217;t surprised by their tastiness. <\/p>\n<p>In other mundane news, I made arrangements to get my car repaired tomorrow. I&#8217;m addressing the internal, not the aesthetic problems with my car. Tonight, I hope to put down some words on my November novel and to do some more work on my website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I got Alex&#8217;s school pictures. When I got inside after work and put everything down on the counter, there I saw my son&#8217;s picture alongside Barack Obama. I loved the image and felt compelled to record it. For the fall\/Thanksgiving project, today&#8217;s theme was sweet potatoes. For dinner, I made Black Bean and Sweet&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/33\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Untitled<\/span><\/a><\/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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s33KTw-33","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2760,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/lunch-bags\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":0},"title":"Lunch bags","author":"admin","date":"August 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"One day, my son decided to go to bed early. It was one of those weird times when a child pretty much says, \"Bye, I'm going to bed.\" Then he yawns, then he disappears into the night. So, given this unexpected quiet time, I decided to make him a special\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;alex&quot;","block_context":{"text":"alex","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/category\/family\/alex\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2111,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/2111\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":1},"title":"Planning, Planning, Planning.","author":"admin","date":"December 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Because I have a bazillion hobbies, sometimes people (particularly) other moms ask me \u00a0how I fit everything in. Truth is, I have been struggling with that a bit recently. The short of it is this. 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