{"id":12682,"date":"2019-08-06T20:08:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T00:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12682"},"modified":"2019-08-06T20:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T00:08:30","slug":"weekend-and-monday-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12682","title":{"rendered":"Weekend and Monday report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today was a good day.<\/strong> I got some translation work, after a month of nothing. Oddly enough, it was in Swedish, which constituted a bit of a challenge. My boss said she understood some of it would probably baffle me. But I think I got most of it OK. If you can read Norwegian, reading Swedish is generally just a matter of lateral thinking. It took me about 5 \u00bd hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The weekend<\/strong> involved the great, biennial (means every other year; I still have to look it up) Walker Family Reunion. This year we held it in the Depot Park in Kenyon, Minnesota, instead of one of the old family farms. The Depot Park is next to the municipal swimming pool, which goes back all the way in time to my childhood. After the Chicago &amp; Great Western Railroad tore up their line, the depot was given to the city as a picnic shelter, and moved across town. It\u2019s decorated inside with a number of historical signs \u2013 the old apex of the false front of the Kenyon Opera House (a fancy name for the vaudeville theater), the scoreboard from the old ball field, the railroad crossing \u201cX\u201d sign, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was almost \u2013 but not quite \u2013 the year my generation got\nto be the Old Folks. But one representative of my dad\u2019s cousins showed up \u2013 using\na walker, but there and welcome. Then of course there\u2019s the cousin who\u2019s the\nson of the youngest daughter in my great-grandfather\u2019s family, who married\nlate. So he\u2019s almost young enough to be my cousin, but is in fact my great uncle.\nOr something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nice day, lots of food. Many stories told. \u201cYou still\nworking at the library?\u201d they ask. No, other things are happening now. Movie\nscripts? Really? And we always thought you were respectable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing went wrong at all, and yet when it was done I felt like I\u2019d done nine rounds with Evander Holyfield. Hours and hours of human society. Oh, the humanity! I collapsed into bed and slept like an honest man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a good day. I got some translation work, after a month of nothing. Oddly enough, it was in Swedish, which constituted a bit of a challenge. My boss said she understood some of it would probably baffle me. But I think I got most of it OK. If you can read Norwegian, reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend and Monday report<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[946],"class_list":["post-12682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family-reunions"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}