{"id":98,"date":"2007-06-28T03:49:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T03:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjeske.isa-geek.com:8080\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-04-03T03:49:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T03:49:48","slug":"98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnjeske.ddns.net\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let the graduation parties begin!  No&#8230; not for me but                 for my little brother.  It&#8217;s been quite an adventure, but let&#8217;s                  start at the beginning.  Me and Susan went up north a few weeks                  back to see my brother graduate.  The drive went well and we                  made it to the ceremony way early.  Not having any idea where                  my folks were at I figured I give them a call.  Well, after                  trying my mom, then my dad, my sister, my brother, and then                  my mom a couple more times I gave up hope of trying to meet                  up with them before the ceremony started.  My brother did call                  me back and found where we were sitting and got to talk a                  little, parents still no where to be found.  Graduation was                  pretty boring, though it went pretty fast.  There were a couple                  of really good speeches and way too many chorus songs.  After                  Ben was had his deploma in hand, we headed back to my sister&#8217;s                  to make a game plan.  We managed to beat everyone else there                  and I had rang the doorbell to see it anyone was home.  No                  answer so me and Susan waited outside.  A little while later,                  Matthew pops outside (guess the doorbell was broken&#8230;)  He was                  in a hurry to get to work and didn&#8217;t have much time to chat.  A                  little while later everyone else showed up and we headed off                  to Mama-Mia&#8217;s.  The food was good although they burnt my dad&#8217;s                  steak, fed him raw noodles, and I&#8217;m pretty sure gave him the                  wrong dressing on his salad (three strikes and your out&#8230;)                   After dinner we went over to the motel, someone forgot their                  swimsuit so we didn&#8217;t get to do any swimming.  After seeing                  some pictures of the mine and Ben&#8217;s memory book, my dad                  wanted to play some pool.  We headed over to the bowling alley                  near the motel, where the all nite party was at.  We walked in                  and looked for Ben, who was no where to be found.  After                  playing a free game of pool, we tried to get a hold of that                  knucklehead, but he wasn&#8217;t answering his phone.  Apparently he                  did show up around nine the next morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was on computer repair duty for a good portion of the                  morning.  I was also recruited into helping with the Palmer                  graduation party.  The party was fun, thought, I had to borrow                  Susan&#8217;s dad&#8217;s truck to carry around my sister&#8217;s grill, and we                  didn&#8217;t even use it.  Other than that, we got to see a lot of                  our old Yooper friends and got to enjoy cake and ice cream,                  before it ended up on the ground (whoops!)  The trip back home                  wasn&#8217;t too exciting until we got to the bridge.  I took the                  I-75 exit from St. Ignace and noticed the car coming up on my                  right looked like a cop car (it didn&#8217;t have any lights on top,                  or markings on the side, but it did have the spotlight commonly                  found near the side mirrors).  I let it pass me and lost sight                  of it for awhile.  About 20 minutes later I saw this black car                  again and was about to pass it when I saw the sheriff logo in                  the middle of the license plate.  Not that I was speeding a                  whole lot, I thought it wise not to pass an unmarked cop car.                   I pulled into the right lane and this guy coming up behind me                  (at about 90 mph) thought he could easily pass all these                  cars.  As soon as he got up to the black car, he promptly                  stepped on his brakes and pulled in behind him.  This went on                  (with other cars) for quite some time.  It was all very                  entertaining&#8230;  Once we got back home it was time to prepare                  for Ben&#8217;s next graduation party&#8230; and an open house for my                  side of the family.  The pary was scheduled for two weeks later                  and that one was a lot of fun too!  I got to see lots of my                  family who all really liked our house (who wouldn&#8217;t?)  My uncle                  roasted one heck of a pig and brought some sweet corn as well.                   In between these two graduation parties, was our first                  year anniversary, but you&#8217;ll have to tune in tomorrow for that                  story. 8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let the graduation parties begin! No&#8230; not for me but for my little brother. It&#8217;s been quite an adventure, but let&#8217;s start at the beginning. Me and Susan went up north a few weeks back to see my brother graduate. The drive went well and we made it to the ceremony way early. Not having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnjeske.ddns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnjeske.ddns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnjeske.ddns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnjeske.ddns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnjeske.ddns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnjeske.ddns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnjeske.ddns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnjeske.ddns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnjeske.ddns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}