{"id":705,"date":"2010-11-02T09:44:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2010-11-02T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T14:44:54","slug":"happy-birthday-love-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Love of my Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, November 2, is Laureen&#8217;s 40th birthday. I got her the sexiest gift I could find&#8211;a new clothes dryer.<\/p>\n<p>Before you clonk me on the head for being &#8220;that type of husband,&#8221; please understand that our current dryer has a cycle of approximately 4.3 weeks for a load of jeans. There&#8217;s heat. There&#8217;s lint. There just isn&#8217;t dry clothes. It sounds like it&#8217;s about to explode out of the laundry nook, walk over to the railing on our second floor, and commit machinicide, leaving behind a &#8220;goodbye cruel world&#8221; written in a cursive twisted dryer vent hose.<\/p>\n<p>So, the biggest challenge for laundry is &#8220;time&#8221;. If I can save Laureen (or me; I do laundry as well) time, that&#8217;s more time for us to spend together.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty good gift, huh? Or at least good rationalization.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Laureen. I love you and the life we have together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, November 2, is Laureen&#8217;s 40th birthday. I got her the sexiest gift I could find&#8211;a new clothes dryer. Before you clonk me on the head for being &#8220;that type of husband,&#8221; please understand that our current dryer has a cycle of approximately 4.3 weeks for a load of jeans. There&#8217;s heat. There&#8217;s lint. There &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday, Love of my Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}