{"id":15045,"date":"2017-07-21T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2017\/07\/21\/mid-summer-catch-up\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:33","slug":"mid-summer-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2017\/07\/21\/mid-summer-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Summer Catch-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1559\/20170721122338-diarycomic-July21-2017.jpg.webp\" alt=\"diary comic, 21 July\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s 150th came and went, and &#8212; considering what a fan of Expo 67 I am &#8212; it was kind of a non-event. I didn&#8217;t even have anything commemorative to wear, so I hastily made a T-shirt with Sharpie markers &#8212; which then bled horribly when I spilled maple syrup all over myself and tried to wash the shirt. But hey, that&#8217;s thematically appropriate, too, eh?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1559\/20170721122540-20170701_093447-w500-h800.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Canada Day T-shirt\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>What did make the day special was having all my family there, which my nephew caught on film.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1559\/20170721122756-_DSC3179%201-w800-h800.jpg.webp\" alt=\"MacDonald Family\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>We also did some sightseeing with the family &#8212; trying to pack in summer PEI stuff, since this is such a special place and it feels like we paid for it in wintertime.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1559\/20170721123024-20170628_131010-w500-h800.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Point Prim lighthouse\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sorry you&#8217;re having to see Doug&#8217;s butt there, but he moves so fast that it&#8217;s difficult to capture him on film at all.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, Craig, Doug, and I completed our dog training class together. Now Doug can sit on command. Sometimes. Which is pretty much what he could do before, but it really feels like we&#8217;re finding our way together. He&#8217;s sweet company, often funny, and now a permanent member of our family.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1559\/20170721123209-20170629_114131-w500-h800.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Getting our dog training certificate\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s 150th came and went, and &#8212; considering what a fan of Expo 67 I am &#8212; it was kind of a non-event. I didn&#8217;t even have anything commemorative to wear, so I hastily made a T-shirt with Sharpie markers &#8212; which then bled horribly when I spilled maple syrup all over myself and tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}