{"id":44,"date":"2008-01-05T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexfaye.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2009-07-02T22:33:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T05:33:59","slug":"my-little-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"My little family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here we are on Christmas — Carlos, Maddy and me — and geez, when I see myself in a photo, I’m always surprised at how chubby I look. Happy though. This is a happy moment. I had fun teasing Carlos about his Miami Vice outfit. He has a pony tail, soft leather loafers with no socks…and his ever-present fanny pack…<\/p>\n

I still haven’t figured out how to take good care of my father (and cook him the old-school foods he likes, like biscuits and gravy), how to take good care of myself (eat well [no biscuits and gravy!], exercise vigorously and frequently, sleep enough), and be a good teacher, a good coach, a good friend…and maybe read a book once in a while. What a paradox — that an English teacher has so little time to read! I did read a book over the holiday, though [Fledgling, Octavia Butler], and I watched some movies — in the theater: No Country for Old Men; on DVD: The Illusionist; The Painted Veil (a Ed Norton binge). And I took some naps, visited the Aquarium, and practiced my golf game. Moreover, I was sick for three days, so I laid around in a hazy stupor, which was weird. I haven’t been sick like that for a few years, and I tend to forget how completely illness can take over. And I worked on school stuff for a few days — so all in all, it was a good holiday. I would trade a week in summer for one more week now, though. Oh, yes I would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here we are on Christmas — Carlos, Maddy and me — and geez, when I see myself in a photo, I’m always surprised at how chubby I look. Happy though. This is a happy moment. I had fun teasing Carlos about his Miami Vice outfit. He has a pony tail, soft leather loafers with no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}