{"id":7945,"date":"2013-05-27T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2013-05-27T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:07:13","slug":"memorial-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2013\/05\/27\/memorial-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess today is meant to officially honor those who died while serving in the military, but I like to think of it as a day to remember the people I cared about who are no longer with us. Notice I said “think” about them, as I don’t actually go around planting flowers or flags or anything like that. I haven’t even visited my parents’ grave in a long time, now that I don’t live very close to where they’re buried. But I don’t really think of them as being there, anyway. Whatever’s there, it isn’t what made them, them. But I think of them all the time, and not just one day a year. There’s also a long list of dogs that I think about, too. Mostly, though, it’s nice to just have a day off (though technically I’m on call<\/del> support duty – there’s a technical difference between on call and support; if I was on call, they’d have to pay me – and could have to respond to a web emergency), and I even have tomorrow off, which is nice as well.<\/p>\n

It’s been kind of chilly around here this weekend. It wouldn’t have been bad but for the wind, which has been kind of annoying. Still, I did get a fair amount of stuff done. The grass is cut, I did a lot of weed whacking, and even cleaned the gutters (which means I was up and down a ladder and squatting on the roof so my foot was bothering my quite a bit last night and is hurting a bit today). And today SU returns to its rightful place – namely, playing for the NCAA Lacrosse National Championship. They haven’t been in the finals since 2009, and today they’re going for their 12th National Championship. <\/p>\n

Another local team – Lemoyne – has already won the Division II National Championship, and the local Community College just won its fifth consecutive Junior College Championship by winning its 70th game in a row (which is a record for any level of college lacrosse). Plus my old high school won the sectional tournament and is now heading into the state championship tournament. <\/p>\n

So now SU just has to do its part and win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess today is meant to officially honor those who died while serving in the military, but I like to think of it as a day to remember the people I cared about who are no longer with us. Notice I said “think” about them, as I don’t actually go around planting flowers or flags […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7946,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions\/7946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}