{"id":2114,"date":"2013-04-19T00:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T05:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2013-04-19T00:12:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T05:12:43","slug":"lizzy-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/19\/lizzy-confirmation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzy Confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of good stuff going on these days. The weather continues to be nice, even if it\u2019s a bit on the cool side. The yard is coming along. Everything is growing now, and it looks like I\u2019ll have to mow this weekend. I\u2019ve been going rollerblading every second day or so, weather permitting. Work is good these days. The VP of the platform group singled out my project for praise at a meeting last week. Sure is better than layoffs, political battles or insane deadlines.<\/p>\n

Martin and Kathleen had their baby, a girl they named Abbie. Congratulations and looking forward to meeting my newest niece.<\/p>\n

Last weekend was a big one for Lizzy too. She\u2019s a teenager now, suddenly wearing contacts and standing six feet tall in high heels, towering over everyone except me. Wow. Saturday was her Honor Band concert, with kids from all over the lower Hudson valley. She played flute and piccolo. The kids sounded really good this year, and had a great selection of songs. Sunday was her Confirmation.<\/p>\n

My parents came into town for the weekend, which was really nice. We got to spend alot of good time together talking and catching up. For the ceremony Jeannie\u2019s folks and Mary\u2019s all came up too. Afterwards we had dinner at a great local Italian restaurant and a party back here. Late in the evening my Dad started telling stories about growing up in Hungary and his experiences surviving the war and its aftermath. I\u2019ve been hearing these stories my whole life, but I still find them endlessly fascinating. Every time there are new things I\u2019ve never heard about before.<\/p>\n

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Lots of good stuff going on these days. The weather continues to be nice, even if it\u2019s a bit on the cool side. The yard is coming along. Everything is growing now, and it looks like I\u2019ll have to mow this weekend. I\u2019ve been going rollerblading every second day or so, weather permitting. Work is … Continue reading “Lizzy Confirmation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}