{"id":11830,"date":"2016-09-04T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=11830"},"modified":"2016-09-03T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T23:38:59","slug":"deep-well-of-inner-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=11830","title":{"rendered":"Deep Well of Inner Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Pittsburgh where my boots have taken me once again&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;to tend to my 88-year-old mother-in-law.  <\/p>\n<p>I am wearing good ol&#8217; comfy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/cycle\/chipbrownharness.html\" target=\"_blank\">brown Chippewa harness boots<\/a> with denim jeans and t-shirts of summer.  It is pleasant and dry outside, though I was confined to a cage to get us here and much of my indoor work is in a house with drawn drapes so it is dark and just sad&#8230; \ud83d\ude41  <\/p>\n<p>My spouse decided at the last minute to come with me, and I am grateful for his company.  It is a long and tiring five-hour drive.  But there is no time to be tired &#8212; lots of things to do reddin&#8217; up da place (aka &#8220;outdoor yard work&#8221;), cleaning the house, grocery shopping, cooking, and other fun things.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh joy&#8230; doing what a guy has to do, drawing on a deep well of inner strength, because:<\/p>\n<p>Life is short: show those you love how you love them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Pittsburgh where my boots have taken me once again&#8230;<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830","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=11830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}