{"id":177,"date":"2007-08-12T20:57:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T00:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2007-08-12T20:59:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T00:59:25","slug":"notify-ground-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/12\/notify-ground-crews\/","title":{"rendered":"notify ground crews"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been so quiet around here that you may be wondering if we were hit by a tornado<\/a>. We were not! Luckily the twister touched down south of us.<\/p>\n

However, the storm’s wrath didn’t completely spare us. That morning we had train reservations to visit my dad in the great green north. After the storm practically all the subways flooded, and of course there were no taxis to speak of. We ended up having to speedwalk with all of our stuff for a mile to get to a subway that was running. Poor Gus was a trooper, though I did have to piggyback him the last few blocks. Did I mention that it was stiflingly hot and humid, too?<\/p>\n

We got to Penn Station with a minute to spare, and Gus and I ran to the gate while Jonathan printed the tickets from the machines. I semi-hysterically pleaded with the conductor to hold the train for us, which they did (phew — there is only one train\/day to the great green north!).<\/p>\n

I have to admit that I am kind of over the train. We got in to my dad’s 1.5 hrs late, and were THREE hours late getting home last night. And the scheduled train time is 9 hrs to begin with! You know I hate driving and I’ve historically been a huge Amtrak booster but this trip was kind of ridiculous. It’s a shame, too, because the route is really pretty and it’s so nice to be able to get up and walk around. But I think next time we will have to take the car.<\/p>\n

Gus had a fantastic rural time with his grandparents: speeding down the alpine slide<\/a>, romping with the menagerie (2 kittens, 3 cats and 2 dogs), riding on the tractor, swimming + frog hunting in the pond, and even going on a few short hikes.<\/p>\n

Hiking! It’s an exciting development. Jonathan and I enjoy a (wimpy + easy) hike, and I’ve been wondering how to get Gus interested in something that’s essentially just a long walk, often uphill. Many days our two-block trip home from the bus stop after school has a seemingly endless loop of “I’m SO tired! CARRY me!” as a soundtrack.<\/p>\n

And the answer is: hiking poles! When you give a kid two pointy metal sticks, he won’t (well, okay, barely<\/i>) complain at all on a hike. Of course, he’ll also swing them around dangerously and whack them into all manner of foliage. While walking sloooooowly. Yes, hiking with kids is not the same as hiking with grownups. But it’s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been so quiet around here that you may be wondering if we were hit by a tornado. We were not! Luckily the twister touched down south of us. However, the storm’s wrath didn’t completely spare us. That morning we had train reservations to visit my dad in the great green north. After the storm […]<\/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-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}