{"id":1997,"date":"2010-01-31T19:32:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T02:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2010-01-31T19:32:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T02:32:06","slug":"when-life-deals-you-lemons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/when-life-deals-you-lemons\/","title":{"rendered":"When life deals you lemons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are sick with a cold that we have evaded for 8 months. A despicable, nefarious cold that waited to get us when we tried to venture to Disneyland.<\/p>\n<p>The missionaries are out speaking and teaching. We&#8217;re here eating chips and sneezing. Here are some photos of our day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-005.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-005-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">4 lemons. I named them Paige, Daniel, Timothy, and Mark&#8230;not because my children are sour but because these lemons are beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-005.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-003.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-003-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We carry this friend around with us to ease our sore throats and coughs. Timothy played chess on my computer most of the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-013.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-013-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here&#8217;s your reminder that Mormon missionaries are awesome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-004.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-004-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Daniel collected berries in the backyard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-001.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-001-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A treasure that I remember from the old days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-001.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-008.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-008-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My sick little boy, smiling despite the trouble in his respiratory tract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2004\" title=\"Mission home 014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-014.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-014-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He stayed close to me most of the day; here he is snoozing on my shoulder again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-002.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mission-home-002-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I keep finding things that remind me how my dad loves my mom. I won&#8217;t tell you the name of her listing on his cell phone, but it&#8217;s darling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sick with a cold that we have evaded for 8 months. A despicable, nefarious cold that waited to get us when we tried to venture to Disneyland. The missionaries are out speaking and teaching. We&#8217;re here eating chips and sneezing. Here are some photos of our day. 4 lemons. I named them Paige, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/when-life-deals-you-lemons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When life deals you lemons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-family-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}