{"id":1553,"date":"2010-11-26T23:22:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2010-11-26T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T04:22:15","slug":"phil-em-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/1553","title":{"rendered":"Phil&#8217; &#8216;Em Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to say today except that I&#8217;ve concluded the day after Thanksgiving may be far better than the day of.  No, not because of the shopping.  I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m going to buy (or accept) any gifts this year.  Just because, if one&#8217;s not tied up in shopping or being conscripted into working on the day after Thanksgiving, it has all the same advantages of the holiday itself with even less inkling of the pressure or expectation.  We spent the whole day lounging, mostly eating, playing board games, eating, reading, eating, talking, and eating.  I think I&#8217;ve actually gained weight this trip.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, another installment of my recently increasing proclivity to turn this into a photolog:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks1.jpg\"><br \/>\nStorey is obsessed with leaves, vol. 47.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks2.jpg\"><br \/>\nI just liked that a big van with &#8220;Press&#8221; in the window was parked so close to a funeral parlor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks3.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe inscrutable sign on the wallside is advertising cheap and safe parking, presumably on the shell of steel beams.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks4.jpg\"><br \/>\nAvoid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks5.jpg\"><br \/>\nCrisp skyline.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks6.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe trash almost made it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks7.jpg\"><br \/>\nBen always did like turkeys.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks8.jpg\"><br \/>\nStorey is obsessed with leaves, vol. 49.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks9.jpg\"><br \/>\nTiers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks10.jpg\"><br \/>\nIndustrial\/Waste.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks11.jpg\"><br \/>\nFish!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks12.jpg\"><br \/>\nSnow!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks13.jpg\"><br \/>\nHeavier snow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks14.jpg\"><br \/>\nAriel &#038; Michael&#8217;s new fireplace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks15.jpg\"><br \/>\nBefore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks16.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;and after!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks17.jpg\"><br \/>\nFirst Thanksgiving as a married couple.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks18.jpg\"><br \/>\nBoggle!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks19.jpg\"><br \/>\nFish =! amused.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks20.jpg\"><br \/>\nFood, glorious food.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks21.jpg\"><br \/>\nHappy cooks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks22.jpg\"><br \/>\nRisk!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PhillyThanks23.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe game gets intense.<\/p>\n<p>As a brief postscript, Fish wants to ask you all what the odds are of getting T-Pain to help out with a cleverly written and imagined spoof of the ever-fabled &#8220;I&#8217;m On a Boat&#8221; web video phenomenon.  If you&#8217;re not pretty sure he&#8217;ll go along, you&#8217;re a pessimist in his book.  Fish&#8217;s, not T-Pain&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to say today except that I&#8217;ve concluded the day after Thanksgiving may be far better than the day of. No, not because of the shopping. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m going to buy (or accept) any gifts this year. Just because, if one&#8217;s not tied up in shopping or being conscripted into working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,24,26],"tags":[5,65,67],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-from-the-road","category-just-add-photo","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-from-the-road","tag-just-add-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}