{"id":1012,"date":"2008-11-16T21:41:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T05:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2009-09-21T18:32:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T02:32:47","slug":"parental-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Parental Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents were in-town from Friday after-noon into Sunday morning.  Dad came in part to do a reading and book-signing at <a href=\"www.mystgalaxy.com\/\">Mysterious Galaxy Books<\/a>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dlmck_20081115.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[image of DLMcK at a lectern, answering a question]\" \/><\/p> <p>My parents were quite surprised by my appearance, not having seen nor been warned about <a href=\"?p=761\">the sideburns<\/a>.  My mother insisted that I now have a beard.<\/p> <p>They brought with them a bicycle that my father used.  He now finds it too hard on his hips, and so gave it to me.  It has been more than fifteen years since I <em>owned<\/em> a bicycle, and more than twenty years since I <em>rode<\/em> on one.  I'll hope that riding a bicycle is <q>just like riding a bicycle<\/q>.<\/p> <p>He also gave me a couple of surplus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logitech.com\/\">Logitech<\/a> computer mouses (one in need of repair and the other essentially brand new), and books and copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/fsf\/\"><cite>the Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction<\/cite><\/a>.<\/p> <p>I gave to Dad the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagehatshop.com\/product2987.html\">crushable Aussie hat<\/a> that I got for him, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ty.com\/20_detail?id=40881\">Beanie Baby husky<\/a>. (Dad is not know for being a fan of Beanie Babies, but we have fond memories of our last family dog, a Siberian Husky.) I completely forgot to give to them any of the <abbr title=\"compact fluorescent light\">CFL<\/abbr>s that I got when they were on sale.<\/p> <p>I have plans to travel to Tucson for Thanksgiving, in part because my parents' computers need some sort of maintenance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My parents were in-town from Friday after-noon into Sunday morning. Dad came in part to do a reading and book-signing at Mysterious Galaxy Books. My parents were quite surprised by my appearance, not having seen nor been warned about the sideburns. My mother insisted that I now have a beard. They brought with them a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[444,364],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-family","tag-hats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}