{"id":2990,"date":"2005-05-16T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2022-10-09T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T21:04:53","slug":"re-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2990","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2980\">Chicago contingency <\/a>reunion yesterday was wonderful.  We all talked about it later, and mentioned how high our expectations were for it &#8230; it could so easily have crashed and burned &#8230; but the whole day, spent outside, barbecuing, talking, watching the kids race around &#8230; was the best it could possibly have been.  It was like old times, except now there are kids in the picture! It was so fun to meet and hang out with Jackie&#8217;s kids &#8230; I hadn&#8217;t met the youngest one at all, and the last time I saw the oldest he was barely out of babyhood.  Great to talk with them, listen to them, get to know them a little bit.  Also cool was seeing Jackie&#8217;s kids playing with David&#8217;s kids &#8230; riding around in a little car, barreling over anything in its way, swinging on the swingset, watching <i>Monsters, Inc<\/i>.  Awesome.  They are the kids of my dearest friends.  Kind of mind-boggling!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the grown-ups pretty much just sat around the umbrella table in the backyard, eating the food from the grill (Ribs!!  Mmmm, good work, David), and chowing down on the food we all brought separately &#8230; drinking, talking, laughing, doing imitations, reminiscing &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wonderful, wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago contingency reunion yesterday was wonderful. We all talked about it later, and mentioned how high our expectations were for it &#8230; it could so easily have crashed and burned &#8230; but the whole day, spent outside, barbecuing, talking, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178434,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/178434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}