{"id":742,"date":"2010-02-02T00:17:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T08:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=742"},"modified":"2010-02-02T00:17:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T08:17:47","slug":"day-355-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"Day 355: countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only ten days to go before my year26 blogging challenge is complete, I thought it\u2019d be a good time to take a quick look back on some highlights of the past year.<\/p>\n<p>February 27:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why did you shoot me?     <br \/>We\u2019re on the same team!&#160; Oh, I      <br \/>see.&#160; You\u2019re just a jerk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>April 16:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The purpose of the pasta express is to make cooking pasta easier and faster.&#160; Unfortunately, it does neither.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>July 22:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today, I\u2019ve been married to Katie for three years.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a great three years. We celebrated by going to the Melting Pot, where I ate too much food and drank two glasses of wine. <em>[note: we already knew about the pregnancy at this point, but had a coupon that gave us two glasses of wine, which is why I drank both]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I love my wife! It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>August 30:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Katie and I are taking a nine month trip to Babytown.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to catch the bus at the impregnation station.<\/p>\n<p>Katie can now drive in the carpool lane by herself and (maybe) get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>Something something something BABY!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>October 24:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Would I survive a zombie uprising? I doubt it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Watching all these zombie movies is sure to either really help or be completely misleading.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>December 18:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You know what I like about Christmas movies?&#160; No matter what happens, everyone ends up happy.&#160; Even the <em>villains<\/em> in Christmas movies have a good Christmas.&#160; Everyone comes together at the end and that\u2019s something that you know from the very beginning of the film.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as if we went through life knowing that at the very end, no matter what horrible scraps we got into or who we had made enemies, all of the people who had known us would gather around our deathbed and sing our favorite song together with us while it snowed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s almost over.&#160; I\u2019m getting a bit weepy, even thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>It is kind of funny, though, that I\u2019ll be finishing up right before an actual life-changing experience happens to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only ten days to go before my year26 blogging challenge is complete, I thought it\u2019d be a good time to take a quick look back on some highlights of the past year. February 27: Why did you shoot me? We\u2019re on the same team!&#160; Oh, I see.&#160; You\u2019re just a jerk. April 16: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-blogging","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}