{"id":742,"date":"2008-10-09T07:09:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T12:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2008-10-09T07:09:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T12:09:41","slug":"the-return-of-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Patrick."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About three years ago, we hosted an exchange student from Denmark named Patrick.  Patrick always said that he wanted to come back and tour the US.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the other night I went out for groceries as Kathy was going to an exercise class at church.  When I returned home, I saw a large Suburban sitting in the driveway.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I thought it was just someone turning around. But when I looked closer, I noticed that it was Patrick.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick and a friend of his arrived in the states about 4 weeks ago for a 90 visit.  When they arrived, they purchased a Suburban.<\/p>\n<p>The Suburban is not only transportation for them, it is also a place for them to spend the night if they need.  It is easily big enough for two people to sleep in.<\/p>\n<p>They are going to spend a couple of days with us and then head for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Never a dull moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About three years ago, we hosted an exchange student from Denmark named Patrick. Patrick always said that he wanted to come back and tour the US. Well, the other night I went out for groceries as Kathy was going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=742\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-bY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}