{"id":510,"date":"2013-08-18T21:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T21:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=510"},"modified":"2013-08-19T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T21:11:12","slug":"last-week-before-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/08\/18\/last-week-before-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Last week before school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our church office somehow didn\u2019t get the memo that we were in a rush for Ghana money.\u00a0 They had put their funds for the trip on the back burner, when in reality, they needed to push things through the board for approval.\u00a0 I got things expedited.\u00a0 By Wednesday, the money was in the account.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, my family went to the river, maybe for the last time this year.\u00a0 School starts next week.\u00a0 Nothing got stolen this time.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I went with the Huss boys to Leguna Seca to look at cars.\u00a0 I did not realize that they were also racing these cars.\u00a0 It was a loud, fun time.\u00a0 We watched a few races from the grandstand, then watched a few more from the \u201ccorkscrew\u201d which is a quick set of turns that also has a 35\u2019 drop within a few feet.\u00a0 I would really like to drive on this course someday.\u00a0 I know that if I join a Porsche club, I would get that chance, but I also don\u2019t want to pay big bucks for the privilege.<\/p>\n<p>An Art job came up late this week up in Fremont, so I dropped my application off on Friday.\u00a0 On Saturday, two Social Studies \u201cpool\u201d positions opened up in the same district.\u00a0 I should turn in that application on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our church office somehow didn\u2019t get the memo that we were in a rush for Ghana money.\u00a0 They had put their funds for the trip on the back burner, when in reality, they needed to push things through the board &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/08\/18\/last-week-before-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}