{"id":2151,"date":"2007-06-05T17:38:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T21:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2007-06-05T20:31:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T00:31:26","slug":"my-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/06\/05\/my-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"My Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/birthday_surprise.jpg' title='birthday_surprise.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/birthday_surprise.thumbnail.jpg' alt='birthday_surprise.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday night, if memory serves, Richard claimed my photographs make people appear better than they look.  Matt and I combined to create this collection, and while they were all vetted by three adults, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impossible to know how the wearer of the face is going to react &#8211; especially given the close crops I favor.<\/p>\n<p>Our dinner slash party together was perfect.  Most of the night felt like any other, and for the brief time I became the center of attention, well, that was fine too. During those blush-inducing toasts I felt like Tom Sawyer watching his own funeral. <\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to clear-up a now decades old myth. It is a better story as told by Steven, and while I did peer in at Karen through her bedroom skylight,  the truth is I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t then fall off the roof. Or jump off in an oedipally induced spasm. Or float off after a glimpse of her naked body.   I fell off my ladder days later while shingling the chimney side of their house. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t soon forget Adam&#8217;s limericks,  John and Karen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rendition of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Here Comes the Sun,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or Dan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Clintonesque soliloquy (Hey, he was talking about me, he could have gone on forever), or Susan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Becca-like proclamation about me not being the boss of her, or Richard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reason for giving me a toast, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Someone took my chair.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog_photos\/our_party\/album\/\" target=_blank\">Photo Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason for the last photo?  Bill Lewis walked by while Diane and I posed for the second to last photo and asked, &#8220;Where&#8217;s the pitchfork?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night, if memory serves, Richard claimed my photographs make people appear better than they look. Matt and I combined to create this collection, and while they were all vetted by three adults, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impossible to know how the wearer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/06\/05\/my-surprise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","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=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}