{"id":693,"date":"2004-09-07T20:59:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/693"},"modified":"2004-09-07T20:59:14","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T18:59:14","slug":"weekend-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/693","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Persian Conference was&#8230;different this year.  Some of the same people, and some new ones, and an extraordinary number of Chicago youth (Persian and friends of Persians).  I went to as many sessions as I could, and spent the rest of the time laughing with friends.<\/p>\n<p>I had lunch with family on Saturday, which is what usually needs to happen on a birthday.  Yay for family!  Saturday evening was spent at California Pizza Kitchen with 20 friends, where food was consumed and a brownie with ice cream was brought for me.  Jonathan got everyone to sign a birthday card for me, and I nearly started crying because of all of the love.  Yay for friends!<\/p>\n<p>The weekend just kept extending itself.  There was more birthday goodness for Shannon on Sunday night, which you can read about in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/ekundayo\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is something to be said about living with a large group of Baha&#8217;is, and all of us living in the same neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Also, life takes strange and wonderful turns sometimes. <\/p>\n<p>I think I have a cold, which means tonight will be spent relaxing and drinking tea, in between studying sessions, hopefully.  I&#8217;m not terribly witty or funny right now&#8230;it seems exhaustion has taken over at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Persian Conference was&#8230;different this year. Some of the same people, and some new ones, and an extraordinary number of Chicago youth (Persian and friends of Persians). I went to as many sessions as I could, and spent the rest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}