{"id":794,"date":"2005-04-03T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/sunday-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:48:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:48:57","slug":"sunday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/sunday-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Benjamin Franklin said that you could count on two things in life: death and taxes. I say you can count on three: death, taxes, and my husband taking a nap on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>What is it with men, anyway? They get the nap gene hard-wired into the DNA, we girls tiptoe around them multi-tasking until our brains are tapioca, and they wake after a couple of hours semi-refreshed and ready to watch some baseball.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s <span>that<\/span> all about?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like I didn&#8217;t know what I was getting into. He did the nap thing while we were dating&#8211;you know, the &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that <span>cute<\/span>?&#8221; phase of the relationship. I should have known it would transfer over into married life, like the socks in the middle of the floor habit and the ice cream addiction.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining. I just find it fascinating. I&#8217;m looking around the wreck that is our house, wondering if a fire hose and a push broom are a good idea, and he&#8217;s contemplating the inside of his eyelids. Seems an unfair trade.<\/p>\n<p>What the heck. I&#8217;ll let him sleep a while. Once he&#8217;s up, though, all bets are off. He&#8217;ll have a chore list, and I&#8217;ll be lounging outside in the perfect Florida weather, reading a romance novel.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for a Sunday afternoon, even if I have to do laundry first.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin said that you could count on two things in life: death and taxes. I say you can count on three: death, taxes, and my husband taking a nap on Sunday afternoon. What is it with men, anyway? They get the nap gene hard-wired into the DNA, we girls tiptoe around them multi-tasking until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31G3g-cO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}