{"id":309,"date":"2005-07-24T17:54:58","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T21:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2005-07-24T17:54:58","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T21:54:58","slug":"quik-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/07\/24\/quik-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"quik-stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

My flight from New York (well, Newark) didn’t leave until 8:35 on Friday, so I took the opportunity to visit with Walt, Lee, Zoe<\/a>, their new arrival<\/a>, and Lee’s dad as an extra bonus. Jake is a hoss, and you can already see that he and Zoe are going to look an awful lot alike. I am betting on him having the same body type as Walt’s brother<\/a>, but it’s awfully early to make that call (that won’t stop me, though).<\/p>\n

You know you’ve reached a good point of familiarity with kids when you arrive and they don’t run for mom or dad’s legs. Zoe was having a great time playing with her Pepé, so I got a quick “Hi Kev!” and a huge smile – what more could you want? She’s incredibly cute, and I was very much a bad influence this visit. I take pride in the fact that I had Walt wondering aloud when my flight was within thirty minutes of arrival.<\/p>\n

We had a couple beers, we had some marvy pizza, I got to hold Jake<\/a> for a little bit, and Zoe and I<\/a> clowned around a little. Lee looks great, if a little tired, and seems to be an awful<\/em> lot more comfortable than the last time I saw her. The three hours shot by incredibly quickly, and I really enjoyed hanging with the family and extended family; it’s always a treat.<\/p>\n

The drive to the airport was aww-inspiring, as Zoe decided she wanted to come to my house then and their. A trip in the near future was promised by me and her daddy, so hopefully we’ll get everyone out for a visit once Jake’s schedule evens out a little.<\/p>\n

The flight back was a little late because of thunderboomers, but was a nice quiet ride. I even got to meet John Muckler, who was returning from the NHL’s announcement that hockey was back. He’s a guy who’s passionate about the game, and he seems genuinely interested in making it fun for people. I stand by what I said earlier, but I hope he and his management staff can pull it off.<\/p>\n

A nice way to end a busy few days through three states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My flight from New York (well, Newark) didn’t leave until 8:35 on Friday, so I took the opportunity to visit with Walt, Lee, Zoe, their new arrival, and Lee’s dad as an extra bonus. Jake is a hoss, and you can already see that he and Zoe are going to look an awful lot alike. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}