{"id":171,"date":"2006-05-24T13:32:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/big-visit-from-the-folks\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T13:33:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T18:33:55","slug":"big-visit-from-the-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/big-visit-from-the-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Visit from the Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Betty hosted my folks for a two-week visit that ended yesterday. We went to at LEAST eight different restaurants! Wasabi Sushi and Thai (twice!), Udupi Vegetarian Indian, Romano’s Macaroni Grill, La Rancherita Mexican, P.F. Chang’s, Mellow Mushroom pizza, Chili’s, SunFlower’s (great veggie sandwiches from scratch)… and lots of big meals at our and Betty’s houses. Time for a diet!<\/p>\n

Played lots of games, went to IMAX, shopping, working on Pop’s book and website… lots of fun all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Betty hosted my folks for a two-week visit that ended yesterday. We went to at LEAST eight different restaurants! Wasabi Sushi and Thai (twice!), Udupi Vegetarian Indian, Romano’s Macaroni Grill, La Rancherita Mexican, P.F. Chang’s, Mellow Mushroom pizza, Chili’s, SunFlower’s (great veggie sandwiches from scratch)… and lots of big meals at our and Betty’s houses. … Continue reading Big Visit from the Folks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-2L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":502,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2009\/chattanooga-tn-mission-trip\/","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":0},"title":"Chattanooga, TN mission trip","author":"m","date":"August 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Reiley's middle school youth group is on a mission trip to Chattanooga and I'm along as an adult chaperone. 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