My husband, George, and I are very unlike each other. An example is in the way we sign letters: I tend to close with, \u201cLove, Karen,\u201d whereas he\u2019s more likely to sign, \u201cSincerely, George K Curran,\u201d\u2014even when it\u2019s a letter to one of our children. He\u2019s a bit more formal than me.<\/p>\n
I recently called our daughter-in-law to wish her a happy birthday. She wasn\u2019t available so I left a message on her voicemail. Of course the message was done my way: I sang the Happy Birthday song, then said, \u201cWe love you, Jen, and hope you\u2019ve had a great day!\u201d<\/p>\n
George, overhearing, proceeded to tell me the sort of message he would have left: \u201cJen, I\u2019m calling in regards to your birthday. Please be advised to have a happy one.\u00a0\u00a0 Should you have any questions about this birthday wish, please call me at your convenience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sometimes I wonder if he\u2019s really left the government bureaucracy behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My husband, George, and I are very unlike each other. An example is in the way we sign letters: I tend to close with, \u201cLove, Karen,\u201d whereas he\u2019s more likely to sign, \u201cSincerely, George K Curran,\u201d\u2014even when it\u2019s a letter to one of our children. He\u2019s a bit more formal than me. I recently called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}