{"id":5224,"date":"2010-01-20T22:47:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2016-05-16T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:20:47","slug":"one-last-hug-granpop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5224","title":{"rendered":"One last hug, Granpop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Cold Moon<\/p>\n<p>Ruthie ran down the drive and said, &#8220;One last hug, Granpop!&#8221;\u00a0 We had come back from an evening at the childhood sensation, Chuck E. Cheese.\u00a0 I hugged Jon and Jen, kissed Gabe, under a crescent moon and took for the Marriot for one last night in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck E. Cheese, for those uninitiated, is a bunch of booths spread out among many games of chance and skill.\u00a0 All the games take one token, available with purchase of the meal.\u00a0 The food is unremarkable, but the music is loud, the place safe&#8211;it has rules against gang colors, signs, weapons (which made me wonder)&#8211;and there&#8217;s a video camera where your kid can go and perform, broadcast on in-house closed circuit TV&#8217;s.\u00a0 Ruth performed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a good six days here.\u00a0 Family requires time and this is probably minimal but it was important, for me and for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Cold Moon Ruthie ran down the drive and said, &#8220;One last hug, Granpop!&#8221;\u00a0 We had come back from an evening at the childhood sensation, Chuck E. Cheese.\u00a0 I hugged Jon and Jen, kissed Gabe, under a crescent moon and took for the Marriot for one last night in Colorado. Chuck E. Cheese, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5224\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One last hug, Granpop!<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[408,438,82,223],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-gabe","tag-jen","tag-jon","tag-ruth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41659,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/41659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}