{"id":5139,"date":"2011-09-13T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2011-09-13T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T23:09:10","slug":"when-efficiency-turns-around-to-bite-you-in-the-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=5139","title":{"rendered":"When efficiency turns around to bite you in the butt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Husband, the day after returning from another business trip, called to let me know he thought he left his passport in the pocket of his tan shorts. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You mean the tan shorts that I JUST put into the dryer?&#8221; I asked.<br \/>\n(long pause)<br \/>\n&#8220;Yep, those tan shorts.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, there it was in his lower pocket. I think you can still read all the numbers. Maybe if I just flatten it out to dry&#8230;. That&#8217;s what you get for having an incredibly efficient wife who starts the laundry right away on a Monday morning. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we flattened and we dried, but it doesn&#8217;t look too official.  He looked it up and if there is water damage, that&#8217;s pretty much a &#8220;get a new passport&#8221; sign.<\/p>\n<p>I keep apologizing for washing his passport, and he just said, &#8220;That picture made me look like a terrorist, anyway.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Hopefully work can pay for the next one, since all the travel he&#8217;s doing is for work, not pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Husband, the day after returning from another business trip, called to let me know he thought he left his passport in the pocket of his tan shorts. &#8220;You mean the tan shorts that I JUST put into the dryer?&#8221; I asked. (long pause) &#8220;Yep, those tan shorts.&#8221; Sure enough, there it was in his lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5143,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}