{"id":1283,"date":"2013-03-09T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2013-03-08T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T22:24:06","slug":"my-trip-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/2013\/03\/09\/my-trip-home\/","title":{"rendered":"MY TRIP HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprising ones parents &#8230; be careful your surprise doesn&#8217;t backfire!<\/p>\n<p>1) Never try too hard to take care of everything, all that does is cause havoc on all, they have it how they want it.<\/p>\n<p>2) Please don&#8217;t wash, clean, put anything in the dishwasher or empty it- they both have their routine and they like it, no they love it! Let it GO, I come home and take away their part of the day, keeps them busy &amp; going!<\/p>\n<p>Bob Swanson, casual family man, aka.&#8217;my dad&#8217; always the funny twist says,&#8221;Remember Brenda, this is like living with two old people who are set in their ways, notice how he says &#8220;TWO OLD PEOPLE&#8221; NEVER EVEN THINKING that they ARE the TWO old people!?!?!?<\/p>\n<p>3) Maybe a little pr-call when you&#8217;ve landed en route&#8217; to their house just asking&#8221; whatcha guys up to?&#8221; might help you figure out what to do next &#8212;<br \/>\nmaybe it&#8217;s because I went for a month to look after them, I mean on the phone from LA they could not wait for me to come home, but at 50 it might be a little too long to go home for! =}<\/p>\n<p>For me it was more about spending time with &#8220;THE TWO OLD PEOPLE&#8221; while I can and have fun with them while they are well&#8230;.. I guess all families are different and it&#8217;s all good!!!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vD_daCqvu3o\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprising ones parents &#8230; be careful your surprise doesn&#8217;t backfire! 1) Never try too hard to take care of everything, all that does is cause havoc on all, they have it how they want it. 2) Please don&#8217;t wash, clean, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/2013\/03\/09\/my-trip-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":93,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}