{"id":48,"date":"2007-11-17T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=48"},"modified":"2007-11-17T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T04:05:00","slug":"the-dreaded-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-dreaded-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dreaded List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span> spent a ridiculous amount of time yesterday getting the wedding invitations out. This involved photocopying, folding, stuffing, stamping, stuffing again, licking and sealing, and stamping again (addressing and the first round of stuffing had been done the previous night with Francine). In the process, I discovered that we had inadvertently left eight people off the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a ridiculous amount of time yesterday getting the wedding invitations out. This involved photocopying, folding, stuffing, stamping, stuffing again, licking and sealing, and stamping again (addressing and the first round of stuffing had been done the previous night with Francine). In the process, I discovered that we had inadvertently left eight people off the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-francine-my-love"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84001,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-cows-and-a-great-evening-in-fonfria\/","url_meta":{"origin":48,"position":0},"title":"One Year Ago: Cows! 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We walked to the bus station \u2013 maybe 1.5 km \u2013 and caught the 9:30 bus to Hospital de \u00d3rbigo. 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Francine in the Mists of Galicia It was taken as we walked through the Galician forests on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Camino&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Camino","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/camino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Francine in the Mists of Galicia","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14011830992_6da975ef41_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14011830992_6da975ef41_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14011830992_6da975ef41_b.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14011830992_6da975ef41_b.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":85445,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-small-step\/","url_meta":{"origin":48,"position":3},"title":"One Small Step","author":"Thom","date":"28 June 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, Francine and I drove up to Sacred Heart church in Fairhaven, near Bellingham, to attend an informational session on the Diaconate. 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