{"id":1002,"date":"2014-03-12T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2014-03-12T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T06:00:06","slug":"getting-out-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/03\/12\/getting-out-with-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting out with friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided that I need to make a very serious effort to get out, and see folks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really awful at <a title=\"A body at rest stays at rest unless acted upon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2013\/12\/a-body-at-rest-stays-at-rest-unless-acted-upon\/\">that<\/a>. But I&#8217;m going to change it. Sometimes, I&#8217;ll get to include the babies. Other times, it will be about leaving the office, and not seeing the babies that night. Tonight was one of those nights.<\/p>\n<p>Micky out of town. Genevieve had the babies. And Meg and I made a dash to see &#8220;The Monument Men&#8221; at the Kabuki Theater. It wasn&#8217;t a good movie. But dinner before hand at The Grove Fillmore was a blast. And we just spent the car ride home making fun of folks we both know.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a good night. The first of many because it&#8217;s time for me to really start focusing on getting out again.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be hard \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided that I need to make a very serious effort to get out, and see folks. I&#8217;m really awful at that. But I&#8217;m going to change it. Sometimes, I&#8217;ll get to include the babies. Other times, it will be about leaving the office, and not seeing the babies that night. Tonight was one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-ga","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1084,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/04\/06\/this-week-in-review-13\/","url_meta":{"origin":1002,"position":0},"title":"This week in review","date":"April 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I wanted the \"This week in review\" post to become an opportunity to share a lot of photos, and just call it a day. I was all set for that too, and then the last two days happened. This weekend, my babies grew up before my eyes. 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