Been pretty busy for the past couple of weeks. Choir concerts, parties, shopping…<\/p>\n
This weekend we went to two parties, sang a choir concert, and hung out with friends. There were a couple more events we could have gone to, but by late afternoon yesterday I was done, so we stayed in last night. I still woke up feeling like I couldn’t wait to get to work for some peace, quiet and relaxation.<\/p>\n
Finally read The Kite Runner<\/i> yesterday. As I thought, it had resonances for me that perhaps it wouldn’t have for people who didn’t leave their country just ahead of decades of devastating civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Been pretty busy for the past couple of weeks. Choir concerts, parties, shopping… This weekend we went to two parties, sang a choir concert, and hung out with friends. There were a couple more events we could have gone to, but by late afternoon yesterday I was done, so we stayed in last night. I … Continue reading “‘Tis the Season”<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}