{"id":102,"date":"2016-04-09T20:59:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2019-08-29T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:31:45","slug":"movin-on-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/09\/movin-on-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Movin&#8217; on up &#8212; and out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We did not move to&nbsp;Baton Rouge&nbsp;because my son was living here. In fact, before I even interviewed with the company I called him and made sure he would be OK with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, there have been real advantages to being in the same city. We were here to&nbsp;participate in the planning and execution of his wedding last year. And house-sitting help is pretty easy to find when we are traveling. And Mama kind of likes having him nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we helped his wife and him move to New Orleans. Well, Kenner, bruh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you are a parent of an adult you don&#8217;t ask too many questions &#8212; like &#8220;Why are you moving to New Orleans when you both have jobs in Baton Rouge?&#8221; So we keep our mouths shut and help them move instead of me asking him &#8220;You do realize your mother just buried her mother less than a month ago, right? NOW is the time you pick to leave?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you don&#8217;t ask, you just help. And pray for the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And go to Middendorf&#8217;s for fried catfish and a really cold beer on the &#8220;way&#8221; home (it&#8217;s not really on the way)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We raised him to have his own mind. Even when we don&#8217;t understand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mike-and-Caitie-Move-2016-e1562183207280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mike-and-Caitie-Move-2016-e1562183207280.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mike-and-Caitie-Move-2016-e1562183207280-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>If you haven&#8217;t been to Middendorf&#8217;s, you really ought to try it. Excellent pain relief&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did not move to&nbsp;Baton Rouge&nbsp;because my son was living here. In fact, before I even interviewed with the company I called him and made sure he would be OK with it. Still, there have been real advantages to being in the same city. We were here to&nbsp;participate in the planning and execution of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/09\/movin-on-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Movin&#8217; on up &#8212; and out<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}