{"id":61422,"date":"2018-03-31T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=61422"},"modified":"2018-03-31T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T04:46:00","slug":"just-had-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/31\/just-had-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Just had to do it\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well here we are in Oklahoma and today the weather was just great.&#160; Maybe a little <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/bit\/\" title=\"View all articles about bit here\">bit<\/a> windy or cloudy at times but most of it was really nice \u2026 low 70\u2019s\u2026 my kind of temps.&#160; I began the <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/day\/\" title=\"View all articles about day here\">day<\/a> reading the news, email and other things and then made a call to my brother and my college room mate, cousin, long <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/time\/\" title=\"View all articles about time here\">time<\/a> friend\u2026 they both were born on the same <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/day\/\" title=\"View all articles about day here\">day<\/a> all but a few years apart.&#160; 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