{"id":9833,"date":"2014-09-04T21:37:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T04:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9833"},"modified":"2014-09-05T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T21:14:30","slug":"this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fell in love with\u00a0this. Richard has been trying to buy me a violin for a long time, but that&#8217;s not as easy as it sounds. I&#8217;ve tried out\u00a0a lot of violins\u00a0over the years and when I played this one, I knew that it was special. We joked that it was a little bit like wand shopping in Harry Potter. When I\u00a0played it, I\u00a0felt\u00a0so strongly that THIS was\u00a0the ONE! Magical! This weekend I get to bring it home. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fiddle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9834\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fiddle.jpg\" alt=\"fiddle\" width=\"225\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fiddle.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fiddle-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> I am reading this. I just finished a chapter about the Vikings. Yikes. Scary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/swedish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9835\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/swedish.jpg\" alt=\"swedish\" width=\"231\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/swedish.jpg 231w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/swedish-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0 I am watching this a little bit at a time. Mark likes the corny humor in it more than I do.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sabrina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sabrina.jpg\" alt=\"sabrina\" width=\"328\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sabrina.jpg 328w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sabrina-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a> I&#8217;ve been concerned about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=31423604&amp;nid=148&amp;title=defense-contractor-l-3-cuts-more-salt-lake-jobs&amp;s_cid=queue-22\">THIS<\/a>. We learned today that Richard still has a job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making a red one of these for Mark to use as a reading fort:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9837\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9837\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tent.jpg\" alt=\"photo from Care's blog\" width=\"320\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tent.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tent-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo from Care&#8217;s blog; pattern by Susan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;ve cheered at baseball games for Mark and Timothy. I haven&#8217;t been cooking much, but Daniel told me tonight that the food this week has been especially good. Now that&#8217;s an accomplishment. Did I mention that I am getting a new violin? That&#8217;s really all I can think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fell in love with\u00a0this. Richard has been trying to buy me a violin for a long time, but that&#8217;s not as easy as it sounds. I&#8217;ve tried out\u00a0a lot of violins\u00a0over the years and when I played this one, I knew that it was special. We joked that it was a little bit like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/this-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This week&#8230;<\/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":[16,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833","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=9833"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18956,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833\/revisions\/18956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}