{"id":1436,"date":"2012-12-08T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2012-12-08T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T16:32:14","slug":"got-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/2012\/12\/08\/got-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Blue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the Helderberg church today and saw several people that Dad knew back when he worked there. Since tomorrow is graduation (it\u2019s usually towards the end of October when the high schoolers can help out, but the new head changed everything), the church was packed. First four rows were for the graduands. Or, as the sign said, First four rows is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">reserved<\/span> for graduands. Dad said that the service was a nice mix\u2014familiar order but definitely African.<\/p>\n<p>After church and meeting Dad\u2019s old (literally) acquaintances, we took doxy (our malaria medicine) and headed to a Thai restaurant for lunch. Alas, Thai food in South Africa is not the same as Thai food in Thailand. The green curry didn\u2019t have the little (or medium, either) eggplants in it that we\u2019d grown accustomed to in Thailand, and the restaurant boasted a \u201cmasala curry.\u201d In case you didn\u2019t know, masala is a type of delicious desert tea in India. (It may also be a Thai curry, but it\u2019s curiously named.)<\/p>\n<p>We drove back to Cape Town from Somerset West and, after Dad had taken a nap, we went for a walk. I was wearing my blue shorts, blue button-up shirt, blue flip-flops, and I still have blue nail polish. And my eyes are blue.<\/p>\n<p>Ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the Helderberg church today and saw several people that Dad knew back when he worked there. Since tomorrow is graduation (it\u2019s usually towards the end of October when the high schoolers can help out, but the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/2012\/12\/08\/got-blue\/\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[172,173,18,174,170,140],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eryn-slug","tag-cape-town","tag-church","tag-food","tag-illnesses","tag-somerset-west","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}