{"id":1122,"date":"2011-03-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2011-03-29T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T08:00:00","slug":"flowers-for-leatherdude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Flowers for Leatherdude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">My partner is a hopeless romantic.&nbsp; He missed me as much as I missed him when I was away for a week in California.&nbsp; While I called him every night, and sent him several email messages every day, it&#8217;s not the same.<\/p>\n<p>I failed to mention that my partner drove me to the airport to drop me off, saving me (well, my employer, anyway) the cost of paying for long-term parking.  Also, I didn&#8217;t want to leave my truck in a lot for a whole week.  <\/p>\n<p>When I returned to the airport, my partner picked me up.  He doesn&#8217;t have or use a cell phone, so there wasn&#8217;t any waiting in a cell phone lot.  Nope, he parked in the short-term nearby parking garage and came into the airport to find me.<\/p>\n<p>So when he saw me at baggage claim, he called out, &#8220;hey, leatherdude&#8221; and handed me a big bouquet of flowers.  He gave me a kiss, embraced me, and said, &#8220;welcome home!&#8221;  I smiled, kissed him back (yeah, in front of &#8220;all those people&#8221;), took the flowers and shed several tears.<\/p>\n<p>Man, it sure is good to be home with the man who makes every day worth living: my partner, my love, my hunk, my bestest friend in the whole world &#8230; my &#8220;better half.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  show those you love that you love them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My partner is a hopeless romantic.&nbsp; He missed me as much as I missed him when I was away for a week in California.&nbsp; While I called him every night, and sent him several email messages every day, it&#8217;s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}