{"id":6543,"date":"2015-09-21T19:41:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T02:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=6543"},"modified":"2015-09-21T22:44:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T05:44:51","slug":"tio-bryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2015\/09\/21\/tio-bryan\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00edo Bryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend brought an unexpected treat: My old Notre Dame friend Bryan Mason, whom I hadn&#8217;t seen in probably 20 years, paid us a visit as part of his West Coast sojourn down from Alaska (where he&#8217;d spent the summer working on a fishing boat). &#8220;I have to warn you,&#8221; he jokingly told Margot and me upon arriving, &#8220;I&#8217;m pretty great with kids.&#8221; And so he was, quickly immediately himself as &#8220;T\u00edo [Uncle] Bryan,&#8221; master builder of everything from Legos to sand castles.<\/p>\n<p>We all had a ball taking him to a perfect beach day in Santa Cruz, and the boys were kind of blown away at all the help they got in building some epic volcanoes in the doomed &#8220;Financial City&#8221; (so named due to Henry plopping out a dozen little &#8220;banks&#8221; with a little sand mold). This morning Finn remarked, &#8220;I thought that with another adult around, it was going to be just &#8216;talkity-talkity-talkity,&#8217; like usual at my birthday party or whatever\u2014but it was <em>super fun instead!&#8221;<\/em> Henry enthusiastically concurred.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/o2cUP8Btg8AQPa2A6\">Here&#8217;s a little gallery<\/a> of the sandy goings-on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/o2cUP8Btg8AQPa2A6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Beach-Masters.jpg\" alt=\"Beach Masters\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6547\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Beach-Masters.jpg 530w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Beach-Masters-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend brought an unexpected treat: My old Notre Dame friend Bryan Mason, whom I hadn&#8217;t seen in probably 20 years, paid us a visit as part of his West Coast sojourn down from Alaska (where he&#8217;d spent the summer working on a fishing boat). &#8220;I have to warn you,&#8221; he jokingly told Margot and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6543"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}