{"id":6435,"date":"2011-11-04T23:57:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T05:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2011-11-04T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T05:59:13","slug":"tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have some pretty weird traditions in my family.\u00a0 One of them is that we watch The Ten Commandments every Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Another is that my mother tells everyone &#8220;rabbit rabbit!&#8221; on the first of every month.\u00a0 Yet another: whenever anyone opens a bucket of fresh butter, everyone nearby screams bloody murder and scrambles to be the first one to break it.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest tradition of them all, however, is that whenever it&#8217;s someone&#8217;s birthday, everyone else rushes to be the first to wish them a happy birthday&#8211;or at least to get one of the first slots.\u00a0 For mine, my youngest sister called me at midnight to get the coveted number one spot.<\/p>\n<p>So anyways, today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateinkaty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">my sister Kate<\/a>&#8216;s birthday.\u00a0 I called her at 11:35 pm MST (GMT-6), which is half an hour past midnight where she lives.\u00a0 Of course, she didn&#8217;t answer her phone (she never does!) so I called her husband and asked him to wake her up so I could talk with her. &#8220;It&#8217;ll only take a second,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he did&#8230;AND SHE SAID I WAS NUMBER TWO!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nuclear-explosion1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4439 aligncenter\" title=\"nuclear-explosion1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nuclear-explosion1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nuclear-explosion1.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nuclear-explosion1-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All I can say is she married smart.<\/p>\n<p>#$@! !#$@# $%@^ !@#!<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have some pretty weird traditions in my family.\u00a0 One of them is that we watch The Ten Commandments every Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Another is that my mother tells everyone &#8220;rabbit rabbit!&#8221; on the first of every month.\u00a0 Yet another: whenever anyone opens a bucket of fresh butter, everyone nearby screams bloody murder and scrambles to be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/tradition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tradition!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,259],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-just-for-fun","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1FN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6443,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions\/6443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}