{"id":8366,"date":"2015-02-14T12:07:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T17:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2015-02-14T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T17:08:44","slug":"returning-home-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=8366","title":{"rendered":"Returning Home: Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have completed my travels both South and West (U.S.)  I am hooooommmmme&#8230;.!!!!<\/p>\n<p>I beat feet with scheduling flights so I could return today, Valentine&#8217;s Day, and I was not disappointed when&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;I began the day snuggling with my beloved spouse, catching up, talking, and being together all warm and cozy.<\/p>\n<p>I prepared him a great breakfast, which he loves so much.<\/p>\n<p>I then got busy catching up on mail, bills, and other stuff when the doorbell rang.<\/p>\n<p>Out front was a dancing bear.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, a bear.  Well, some guy in a big bear costume.<\/p>\n<p>He handed me a box of red velvet cupcakes and a card while doing a little jig on the front porch.<\/p>\n<p>I just died laughing.<\/p>\n<p>The note read,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day and welcome home to my TSU!&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>TSU = &#8220;Traveling spousal unit&#8221;  &#8212; a funny expression my spouse has bestowed upon me.<\/p>\n<p>It is great to be back home and reunited with the man who means the world to me.<\/p>\n<p>More bloggin&#8217; later&#8230; I still have a lot of catching up to do!<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  love your spouse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have completed my travels both South and West (U.S.) I am hooooommmmme&#8230;.!!!! I beat feet with scheduling flights so I could return today, Valentine&#8217;s Day, and I was not disappointed when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8366","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\/8366","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=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}