{"id":536,"date":"2004-07-01T14:09:34","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T21:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=536"},"modified":"2008-04-23T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T21:10:40","slug":"the-medium-sized-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/07\/01\/the-medium-sized-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"The medium-sized American Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy and I moved in together today, unofficially.                 Officially, though, we were able to tell the family and friends                 at a welcome barbecue that night that Tracy and I are expecting&#8230;                 with an expected delivery date of January 2, 2006, if all goes                 well.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t really lived in a house since 1990, back                 in Dekalb, Illinois, with six other college students. The house                 was dubbed &#8220;the house of spackle&#8221;. Despite $20K in                 renovations, it still looked like the beacon for keg parties                 in Dekalb County. When I moved to Seattle in 1994, I lived in                 a communal house for 3.5 months, but that felt like an apartment.<\/p>\n<p>This new house is a medium-sized palace&#8230; after                 15 years of one-bedroom houses. Like all couples do, we&#8217;re setting                 the place up especially for us, and thinking about the next six                 months and all the preparations that need to be made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/07\/01\/the-medium-sized-american-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy and I moved in together today, unofficially. Officially, though, we were able to tell the family and friends at a welcome barbecue that night that Tracy and I are expecting&#8230; with an expected delivery date of January 2, 2006, if all goes well. I haven&#8217;t really lived in a house since 1990, back in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/07\/01\/the-medium-sized-american-dream\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The medium-sized American Dream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/07\/01\/the-medium-sized-american-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}