{"id":64140,"date":"2026-10-03T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64140"},"modified":"2026-10-03T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:58:17","slug":"lunch-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64140","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday. No resolution yet on Shadow and the night. Crystal, unlike Nashay, has no problem taking her out after dark.<\/p>\n<p>Most staff here work 4 twelve-hour shifts. That means the rhythm of their appearance changes often. I get the reason for a day shift and a night shift. It gives us residents continuity of care throughout the time we&#8217;re awake. Even so it would be nice to have caregivers on a more predictable schedule. Maybe I&#8217;ll get used to it.<\/p>\n<p>Petscan results delayed. Appointment now on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch out yesterday. Ginny and Janice. Ashley, Janice&#8217;s three year old niece. Patrick and Allen? Two men with great white beards. Felt at home.<\/p>\n<p>We went to the Hummingbird, the Creole restaurant opened by Josh and Sarah, two CBE members with New Orleans roots. I had beignets (of course) and blackened mahi mahi po-boy.<\/p>\n<p>We laughed and talked for an hour plus. By that time I&#8217;d grown weary, but happy. I can go out for lunch. Breakfast. Not too often. It did wear me out, but a big advance for my life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday. No resolution yet on Shadow and the night. Crystal, unlike Nashay, has no problem taking her out after dark. Most staff here work 4 twelve-hour shifts. That means the rhythm of their appearance changes often. I get the reason for a day shift and a night shift. It gives us residents continuity of care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lunch Out<\/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":[4421,11,127,4422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elk-run","category-friends","category-health","category-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64140","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=64140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64142,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64140\/revisions\/64142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}