The Smith Family Garden Luau<\/a> where a man sitting across from us told a story. It seems he had a friend who had come to Hawaii once and taken a small piece of lava as a souvenir. Knowing nothing of my driftwood, this man explained how his friend’s luck turned bad when he got home.<\/p>\n“He lost his job,” the man said, “and his family left him, and he’s in jail.”<\/p>\n
For the next four days, Trudy grumbled regularly about my driftwood and said I needed to put it back which I pointedly did not do.<\/p>\n
So on the morning of our last day on Kauai, as I was taking a shower, the fair and industrious Trudy announced that she was taking my driftwood back to the beach.<\/p>\n
And as far as I know, my first day at my new job is still on for tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On our first day in Kauai I took a fancy to a small piece of driftwood washed up on the beach.\u00a0I picked it up and proclaimed, “I’m taking this.”\u00a0Trudy scowled.\u00a0 The next day, I woke up sick. I had a headache. I had a neck ache. I was nauseous and didn’t want to get out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}