{"id":1305,"date":"2013-09-07T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2013-09-07T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T14:30:27","slug":"hanging-with-the-grown-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Hanging with the grown ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friends and I had done a really good job for several years to plan monthly Girls Nights Out. \u00c2\u00a0We would gather in a restaurant for hours recapping kid issues, stories about family and how we were balancing work\/life or stay at home mommyhood\/life. \u00c2\u00a0I loved that night month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_47252.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1308 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_4725\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_47252-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_47252-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_47252-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_47252.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then life happened and we got away from it. \u00c2\u00a0We would all say we needed to do it but there would be kid parties, family obligations or plans. \u00c2\u00a0But we found a night. \u00c2\u00a0And decided no restaurant wanted us as long as we were planning to gab. \u00c2\u00a0I got home at 1:30am that night. \u00c2\u00a0So needed. \u00c2\u00a0And so in sync are we that two of us brought the same dessert to celebrate finally getting together!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_6671.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1310 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_6671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_6671-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_6671-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_6671-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next day was a college reunion of sorts. \u00c2\u00a0My two great college friends and I got together with our husbands and children for a BBQ. \u00c2\u00a0There are six kids among us and 16 years of friendship- the kind of friends you can pick up right where you left off.<\/p>\n<p>It was the kind of weekend I needed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends and I had done a really good job for several years to plan monthly Girls Nights Out. \u00c2\u00a0We would gather in a restaurant for hours recapping kid issues, stories about family and how we were balancing work\/life or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1305\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}