{"id":236,"date":"2007-06-24T06:48:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T11:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=236"},"modified":"2007-06-24T06:48:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T11:48:28","slug":"summer-reading-or-summer-studying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Summer reading&#8230; or summer studying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Tahoma, sans-serif\"><font size=\"4\">Bill called me today from the train station in Paris.  He&#8217;d found an international bookstore with travel guides.  He was checking to make sure what we do and don&#8217;t have before choosing three Green Guides to add to our growing travel library: Paris, Cote d&#8217;Azur and Chateaux of the Loire Valley.  <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Tahoma, sans-serif\"><font size=\"4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When he got home, I tried to play it cool.  After all, I really was happier to see him than to see the books.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Tahoma, sans-serif\"><font size=\"4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First, I flipped through one of the English magazines he&#8217;d brought.  I very much enjoyed the layout showing how to have country charm in your double-wide.  (I swear it)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Tahoma, sans-serif\"><font size=\"4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Finally, I couldn&#8217;t hold back anymore.  I grabbed the books, anxious to check out some of the potential vacations.  What I found&#8230; French.  All the books are in French.  <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Tahoma, sans-serif\"><font size=\"4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I hesitated to tell Bill, but had to.  He was really upset.  It&#8217;s ok, I said.  I can read French ok now&#8230; I can try to figure out the books.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Tahoma, sans-serif\"><font size=\"4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s such an easy mistake to make.  You get so caught up in the thrill of finding stuff in English&#8230; you forget to make sure that&#8217;s what you take to the cashier.  Oh, well, I guess I have my summer studies cut out for me.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill called me today from the train station in Paris. He&#8217;d found an international bookstore with travel guides. He was checking to make sure what we do and don&#8217;t have before choosing three Green Guides to add to our growing travel library: Paris, Cote d&#8217;Azur and Chateaux of the Loire Valley. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}