{"id":23,"date":"2004-11-15T04:47:25","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T08:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/newblog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2004-11-15T04:47:25","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T08:47:25","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no &#8220;<b>the<\/b> perfect weekend,&#8221; I don&#8217;t believe. But every now and then, very rarely, you run into &#8220;<b>a<\/b> perfect weekend.&#8221; This weekend was one of them. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s almost completely due to my super-spectacular girlfriend. We didn&#8217;t do anything very special. We didn&#8217;t spend lots of money, go to a fancy restaurant, go on vacation, try anything new, or anything of the sort. This weekend wasn&#8217;t entirely about sex, or cuddling, or going out and having fun, or staying in and relaxing. Yet this weekend had a perfect mix of everything. This weekend had no goals except to be with each other; and this weekend surpassed every expectation.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend had things go wrong. Some things we talked about doing did not happen, or didn&#8217;t happen when we wanted them to. We faced disappointment a few times. I even dented my car this weekend. But despite all of that, the disappointment was always nearly-immediately remedied by a well-timed hug, a well-placed kiss, or a caring look.                          <\/p>\n<p>Nothing was perfect about this weekend, but it was undoubtedly a perfect weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no &#8220;the perfect weekend,&#8221; I don&#8217;t believe. But every now and then, very rarely, you run into &#8220;a perfect weekend.&#8221; This weekend was one of them. That&#8217;s almost completely due to my super-spectacular girlfriend. We didn&#8217;t do anything very special. We didn&#8217;t spend lots of money, go to a fancy restaurant, go on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}