{"id":953,"date":"2010-10-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2010-10-12T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T08:00:00","slug":"bootmen-of-da-burgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Bootmen of Da&#8217; &#8216;Burgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TLN8vX2R-6I\/AAAAAAAACls\/4dRQVhInE-U\/s1600\/Burgh01.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TLN8vX2R-6I\/AAAAAAAACls\/4dRQVhInE-U\/s320\/Burgh01.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">This past weekend, my partner and I drove to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, to visit his mother who lives there.&nbsp; My partner did a number of chores around the house to keep it in good shape (and he told me not to, so I wouldn&#8217;t aggravate a hernia that I just discovered).&nbsp; We also gave his Mom some company as she lives alone and gets rather lonely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">It was a quiet, peaceful, visit.&nbsp; While I was &#8220;up bear,&#8221; I had the distinct pleasure of meeting a friend who contacted me at first through this blog, and then through many hundreds of emails over several years.&nbsp; It never worked out until this trip to be able to meet in person.&nbsp; We sat atop Mt. Washington enjoying a bright, sunny afternoon on a lovely day, while taking in the view of the picturesque city skyline. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">What a wonderful guy, from his comfy Justin cowboy boots to his broad smile on his handsome face. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TLQm92cSLSI\/AAAAAAAACl0\/1tCO-bXzIa0\/s1600\/Burgh03.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TLQm92cSLSI\/AAAAAAAACl0\/1tCO-bXzIa0\/s320\/Burgh03.jpg?resize=320%2C164\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TLQm-CViRtI\/AAAAAAAACl4\/adXy9jj7Q_A\/s1600\/Burgh04.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TLQm-CViRtI\/AAAAAAAACl4\/adXy9jj7Q_A\/s320\/Burgh04.jpg?resize=320%2C142\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TLN8x3mpPhI\/AAAAAAAAClw\/ME942WSdiBo\/s1600\/Burgh02.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TLN8x3mpPhI\/AAAAAAAAClw\/ME942WSdiBo\/s320\/Burgh02.jpg?resize=320%2C216\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Life is short:&nbsp; enjoy it with friends!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, my partner and I drove to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, to visit his mother who lives there.&nbsp; My partner did a number of chores around the house to keep it in good shape (and he told me not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=953\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-friends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}