{"id":533,"date":"2006-01-07T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T18:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/07\/more-holiday-happenings\/"},"modified":"2006-01-07T10:15:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T18:15:03","slug":"more-holiday-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/07\/more-holiday-happenings","title":{"rendered":"More Holiday Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I post\u00aded <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/06\/holiday-highlights\/\">last night\u2019s entry<\/a> I was filled with even more mem\u00ado\u00adries of the hol\u00adi\u00addays.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Home cook\u00ading. Home Cajun cook\u00ading.<\/li>\n<li>Eat\u00ading at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steamboatwarehouse.com\/\">Steam\u00adboat<\/a> for our anniver\u00adsary. Tasty beyond belief.<\/li>\n<li>Teach\u00ading my nephew Rick why you should nev\u00ader lose at Tic-Tac-Toe. Also, reduc\u00ading niece Rebec\u00adca to whin\u00ading because I would\u00adn\u2019t \u201cgo easy on her\u201d while demon\u00adstrat\u00ading my mad Tic-Tac-Toe skil\u00adlz to a suit\u00adably impressed Rick.<\/li>\n<li>Read\u00ading <a title=\"View product details at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=myspeculation-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0812504003%2526tag=myspeculation-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0812504003%25253FSubscriptionId=1ESPWHQPEAFEE2CS3BG2\">Sol\u00addier, Ask Not<\/a> as an adult and real\u00adiz\u00ading the hero is some\u00adone oth\u00ader than I thought it was when I first read it as a kid.<\/li>\n<li>Being a mis\u00adsion\u00adary table host for the stu\u00addents from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xafsu.com\/\">FSU Chi Alpha<\/a> when the assigned dis\u00adcus\u00adsion top\u00adic was sex\u00adu\u00adal puri\u00adty. There was so much bois\u00adter\u00adous laugh\u00adter at our table that we got a dirty look from one table and a snide com\u00adment from anoth\u00ader, \u201cDo you see how that table is laugh\u00ading over there? They don\u2019t take sex seri\u00adous\u00adly.\u201d To which my reply was, \u201cI find humor in every\u00adthing I val\u00adue greatly\u2013laughter is one way of delight\u00ading in some\u00adthing pre\u00adcious. Besides, if you can\u2019t laugh at some\u00adthing as ridicu\u00adlous as sex you are seri\u00adous\u00adly humor-chal\u00adlenged.\u201d In the oth\u00ader table\u2019s defense, how\u00adev\u00ader, we were hav\u00ading a dis\u00adrup\u00adtive\u00adly good time.<\/li>\n<li>Find\u00ading out that many of my for\u00admer <a href=\"http:\/\/chialpha.com\/conferences\/rui\/\">RUi<\/a> stu\u00addents real\u00adly enjoyed my ses\u00adsions and remem\u00adbered them in sur\u00adpris\u00ading detail.<\/li>\n<li>See\u00ading how many Chi Alphas are spread\u00ading into the elite schools. One cou\u00adple I helped dis\u00adci\u00adple is head\u00ading to estab\u00adlish a min\u00adistry at Cor\u00adnell and I met anoth\u00ader chap head\u00ading to Brown (his bril\u00adliant sup\u00adport-rais\u00ading mot\u00adto: \u201cWhat can you do for Brown?\u201d). Of Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u2019s extreme\u00adly pres\u00adti\u00adgious schools, that makes staff-sup\u00adport\u00aded chap\u00adters at Stan\u00adford, George\u00adtown, MIT, Brown, Yale and Cor\u00adnell. We\u2019re mak\u00ading major progress on that front.<\/li>\n<li>Chat\u00adting with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abovethehaze.org\/staff\/\">Gene Bre\u00adit\u00aden\u00adbach<\/a> about the recent intel\u00adli\u00adgent design court case (he\u2019s a huge fan of the way the case was decid\u00aded).<\/li>\n<li>Real\u00adiz\u00ading how stark the imbal\u00adance is between Chi Alpha Xan\u00adga users and the more enlight\u00adened Chi Alpha Word\u00adPress crowd. I may have to post an arti\u00adcle on that some\u00adday (but only if I want to endure a good-natured web fight, espe\u00adcial\u00adly since my wife is a Xan\u00adgan).<\/li>\n<li>Dana scream\u00ading \u201cHome!\u201d with delight when we stepped back through the door of our apart\u00adment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I post\u00aded last night\u2019s entry I was filled with even more mem\u00ado\u00adries of the hol\u00adi\u00addays. Home cook\u00ading. Home Cajun cook\u00ading. Eat\u00ading at the Steam\u00adboat for our anniver\u00adsary. Tasty beyond belief. Teach\u00ading my nephew Rick why you should nev\u00ader lose at Tic-Tac-Toe. Also, reduc\u00ading niece Rebec\u00adca to whin\u00ading because I would\u00adn\u2019t \u201cgo easy on her\u201d \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/07\/more-holiday-happenings\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cMore Hol\u00adi\u00adday Hap\u00adpen\u00adings\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-8B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}