{"id":8286,"date":"2021-04-02T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"home-from-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8286","title":{"rendered":"HOME FROM COLLEGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caleb and Hannah are home from college for the long holiday weekend and all is right with the world &#8211; if only temporarily.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It won&#8217;t be long now before they&#8217;ll be back for the summer months, so I picked up the pace this week on some cosmetic work in Hannah&#8217;s old bedroom &#8211; patching some drywall, adding some trim and fresh paint. I had hoped to have it livable by the time her cousin dropped her at home this evening, but it didn&#8217;t happen. Tomorrow morning it will be top priority to at least reach a state where it is possible for Hannah to sleep there tomorrow night. Tonight it&#8217;s the couch.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I get down about missing Haiti, I remind myself that if Melissa and I were still there with Samuel and Sarah, we would be missing out on special times together as a whole family like this Easter weekend. They are only going to become more rare as the years march on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caleb and Hannah are home from college for the long holiday weekend and all is right with the world &#8211; if only temporarily.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t be long now before they&#8217;ll be back for the summer months, so I picked up the pace this week on some cosmetic work in Hannah&#8217;s old bedroom &#8211; patching some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8287,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions\/8287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}