{"id":8797,"date":"2009-01-13T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T15:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8797"},"modified":"2022-10-16T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T19:37:38","slug":"scanning-tuesday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8797","title":{"rendered":"To Elton John via Limo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Betsy won tickets and a limo ride to an Elton John concert off some radio contest.  We were sophomores in college.  Betsy&#8217;s father was (is) a priest (in fact, he just married my sister Jean and her now-husband Pat) &#8211; and his house and church were on the campus where I went to college.  So I walked over there that night, and there was a huge limo waiting for us.  A limo parked in front of the church, waiting for the pastor&#8217;s daughter and her friend.<\/p>\n<p>We had so much fun.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all was that we ran into Mitchell at the Civic Center, and we weren&#8217;t really friends yet, although we knew OF each other &#8230; and we were so excited to run into each other that I count that moment as really the first moment when I knew we would be friends.  Well, that and us laughing at how bad we were at juggling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3195681864_9740cc4cd0_c-e1665949054265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182140\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betsy won tickets and a limo ride to an Elton John concert off some radio contest. We were sophomores in college. Betsy&#8217;s father was (is) a priest (in fact, he just married my sister Jean and her now-husband Pat) &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8797\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797"}],"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=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182142,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions\/182142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}