{"id":675,"date":"2006-02-01T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2006-02-01T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T16:03:00","slug":"somebody-wants-to-start-a-ruckus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"SOMEbody Wants To Start A Ruckus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other night, after finishing dinner at our nearby Thai restaurant, James &#038; I were joking around &#038; he was being a cheeky monkey and I responded by feigning as though I was going to up-end the entire table over onto him.<\/p>\n<p>Then I said, &#8220;Just once, wouldn&#8217;t it be fun to do that? Just once?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James thought it would be an excellent diet ploy, as it would prevent us from ever returning to our favorite restaurants. <\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t let the idea go, I kept pretending I was going to do it. It just seemed like such a FUN thing to do, and so dramatic, and something that only happens in movies, and never something ordinary people like us would just&#8230;. DO. Which makes it all the more tempting!<\/p>\n<p>On the drive home, I brought up how we&#8217;d come a long way in the 6+ years, and while there isn&#8217;t a magic recipe, or that conflict ever goes away, some things are just more &#8220;known&#8221; now, and we don&#8217;t get worked up the way we did, say, when we were living in the apartment, buying the house, etc. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve mellowed, JWo,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Except for the part where you&#8217;re turning over tables in restaurants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;True, true.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other night, after finishing dinner at our nearby Thai restaurant, James &#038; I were joking around &#038; he was being a cheeky monkey and I responded by feigning as though I was going to up-end the entire table over onto him. Then I said, &#8220;Just once, wouldn&#8217;t it be fun to do that? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}