{"id":529,"date":"2005-05-31T21:19:34","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T04:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2005-05-31T21:19:34","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T04:19:34","slug":"cottage-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/cottage-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Cottage Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren and Maria helped me pick out some sweet curtains, a cover for the sofa, pillows, shower curtain, carpet for the coffee table, candles, garden torches at IKEA yesterday. I&#8217;m hoping that I still gain some respect from my male friends even though I have strawberry, grapefruit and watermelon candles spread around the house. <\/p>\n<p>Picked up Boyk and Michelle today from OAK. El Ojo de Agua was had. Man, that taco truck is good. Chorizo is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Gas was turned on today (despite their telling me that the dude would be there *sometime* between 8 am and 8 pm), and I put in some new bulbs in the kitchen which will make it brighter. The PG&#038;E guy was cool and told me how he got busted trying to smuggle cigars and rum out of Cuba &#8212; this was \u02c6 propos of seeing my Cuba baseball posters.<\/p>\n<p>I took my first shower tonight under the sweet skylight. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>A Cuppa Tea (corner of Alcatraz and College Aves.) has big comfy chairs, tasty hot chocolate ($2!) and free WiFi. <\/p>\n<p>Oatmeal cookies with <lj user=\"taosterman\"> and <lj user=\"kyobu\"> tonight. I&#8217;m glad to initiate the stove in style.<\/p>\n<p>Email me or leave in comments votes for specific beers\/drinks or anything else that you have to have for the Saturday party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren and Maria helped me pick out some sweet curtains, a cover for the sofa, pillows, shower curtain, carpet for the coffee table, candles, garden torches at IKEA yesterday. I&#8217;m hoping that I still gain some respect from my male friends even though I have strawberry, grapefruit and watermelon candles spread around the house. Picked up Boyk and Michelle today from OAK. El Ojo de Agua was had. Man, that taco truck is good. Chorizo is amazing. Gas was turned&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-rockridge","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-8x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}