{"id":1131,"date":"2003-04-20T16:35:50","date_gmt":"2003-04-21T06:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/20\/a-visit-from-miranda\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:33:44","slug":"a-visit-from-miranda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/20\/a-visit-from-miranda\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit from Miranda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/04\/graphics\/miranda.jpg\" title=\"Miranda at Neighbors\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Miranda at Neighbors\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/04\/graphics\/miranda-thumb.jpg\" width=\"62\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Had a very pleasant weekend &#8212; just staying at home and relaxing for most of it, but yesterday evening spent a good few hours visiting with Miranda, who had come out to visit. She and her friend Ryan had spent Friday with Ryan&#8217;s frend Marty down in Vancouver, WA, and then the three of them came up to Seattle on Saturday evening so that Miranda and I could visit. Was a lot of fun &#8212; I keep telling her we&#8217;ve got to get together more often than just once a year! ;)<\/p>\n<p>Much of the fun of the evening was meeting Ryan and Marty. Miranda and I had made plans to go out to a couple of the clubs here while she was in town, and as the two that I know best are Neighbors and the Vogue, those were our destinations for the night. While I didn&#8217;t have any worries about Miranda fitting in at my usual haunts, it was a little entertaining shepherding Ryan and Marty along with us &#8212; cowboy hats, while not completly out of place at Neighbors, aren&#8217;t often seen in the goth\/industrial domain of the Vogue!<\/p>\n<p>Still, they&#8217;re both good guys, and it made for a fun evening. Trish, one of the people I&#8217;ve met at the Vogue came up and talked with Marty for a while after checking with me first to make sure it&#8217;d be okay, since I was obviously with the two of them. Her first question \u2010 &#8220;So, do you feel a little out of place here?&#8221; As it turns out, they&#8217;d been a bit worried at first, but quickly realized that they were perfectly safe, and nobody was going to screw with them. Didn&#8217;t surprise me, of course, but it was fun to watch the initial reactions.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a very fun evening &#8212; a little drinking, a little dancing, and a <em>lot<\/em> of catching up, until they had to head back down to Vancouver to sleep and prepare for the drive back home today.<\/p>\n<p>Always good to see old friends again. Now, who&#8217;s next to visit Seattle? ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a very pleasant weekend &mdash; just staying at home and relaxing for most of it, but yesterday evening spent a good few hours visiting with Miranda, who had come out to visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}