{"id":154,"date":"2009-06-19T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2009-06-19T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:57:00","slug":"return-from-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"return from LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SjvD1e8GScI\/AAAAAAAABXA\/IMn3s7B8fOU\/s1600-h\/IMGP2307.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349084306038213058\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SjvD1e8GScI\/AAAAAAAABXA\/IMn3s7B8fOU\/s320\/IMGP2307.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 240px;\" \/><\/a>Returning home not to be greeted by Tucou was a very strange feeling; a sense of a missing piece of our lives. Even after a few days we both keep thinking of him and the small ordinary everyday things of which he was part.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Los Angeles is so much fun. The good weather surely contributes to this. Eccentric people can still be part of the landscape.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Our purpose was to see our children. But the sideshow of humanity certainly made it even more fun.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SjvD04qeMSI\/AAAAAAAABW4\/BVEArXk9ckE\/s1600-h\/IMGP2352.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349084295763734818\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SjvD04qeMSI\/AAAAAAAABW4\/BVEArXk9ckE\/s320\/IMGP2352.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 240px;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SjvD0v7GFtI\/AAAAAAAABWw\/w4ypVACE8bw\/s1600-h\/IMGP2120.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349084293417539282\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SjvD0v7GFtI\/AAAAAAAABWw\/w4ypVACE8bw\/s320\/IMGP2120.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SjvD0Xm0G9I\/AAAAAAAABWo\/a1TY3mpZdUo\/s1600-h\/DSC_2392.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349084286890023890\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SjvD0Xm0G9I\/AAAAAAAABWo\/a1TY3mpZdUo\/s320\/DSC_2392.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SjvD0FkYlwI\/AAAAAAAABWg\/-sf6NUB_Rn4\/s1600-h\/DSC_2357.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349084282047993602\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SjvD0FkYlwI\/AAAAAAAABWg\/-sf6NUB_Rn4\/s320\/DSC_2357.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning home not to be greeted by Tucou was a very strange feeling; a sense of a missing piece of our lives. Even after a few days we both keep thinking of him and the small ordinary everyday things of which he was part. Los Angeles is so much fun. The good weather surely contributes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">return from LA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}