{"id":128,"date":"2003-12-16T07:21:41","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T15:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=128"},"modified":"2006-10-15T11:02:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T15:02:59","slug":"married-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2003\/12\/16\/married-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Married Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night is one of Diane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nights to cook. Matt has Thursday and I know I have Tuesday but sometimes I forget. Maybe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a directions thing because yesterday I was at Shaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s buying food for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Which is always a challenge. Sometimes Matthew and I wander the aisles like observers from another dimension. There are the choices, but we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to pluck them from the shelves. Yesterday, I thought, how about spaghetti and meatballs? We frequently have pasta and we frequently have meatballs,  but rarely the two together. I tossed in jar of sauce,  without mushrooms, and a can of whipped cream (for Diane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coffee, not dinner) and headed to check out.<\/p>\n<p>Diane arrived home early for a Monday,  with two bags of groceries. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d cook tonight,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc   offered in my most humble, self serving manner. She is so accustomed to this,  it fazes her not at all. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSo what did you buy?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Meatballs from Idlywilde, to go with the pasta in the freezer, spaghetti sauce and a can of whipped cream.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I do have that photo of John and Matthew mowing the grass. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post it as soon as I get it back from Diane who took it to her group to show Wendy Rosen.<\/p>\n<p>Susan, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m planning on picking you up at Logan. My afternoon is free. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/fisherman_sm.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lake Sylvia, the summer of 1990.<br \/>\nView larger image<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night is one of Diane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nights to cook. Matt has Thursday and I know I have Tuesday but sometimes I forget. Maybe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a directions thing because yesterday I was at Shaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s buying food for dinner. Which is always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2003\/12\/16\/married-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}