{"id":1758,"date":"2013-07-15T01:46:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T06:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2013-07-15T01:46:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T06:46:05","slug":"family-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2013\/07\/15\/family-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanairlines.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1765\" alt=\"2013.07.15.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013.07.15.a.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joss_paper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1766\" alt=\"2013.07.15.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013.07.15.b.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>My weekend trip to NYC this past weekend was my first visit back home in a long time, but also sadly an inauspicious one. I had just come home from a Friday <a href=\"http:\/\/thetopofthehill.com\/\">mixer<\/a> with the new residents and fellow when I got a phone call from my parents about my aunt&#8217;s passing. After seeing post-ops Saturday morning, I caught a last-minute flight that landed in time for lunch with my parents in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.assiplaza.net\/\">Flushing<\/a> before spending a quiet evening at home. On Sunday morning, the family congregated over take-out dim sum at my auntie&#8217;s place, which gave me a chance to catch up with the many cousins I&#8217;ve lost contact with. We took a photo of us, although our black suits made us look more like the Triad. The funeral itself brought back memories of Buddhist chants and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joss_paper\">joss paper<\/a>, which to my surprise, I still remembered to fold. We celebrated my mom&#8217;s birthday over Chinese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/east-harbor-seafood-palace-brooklyn\">seafood<\/a>, and before I knew it, was back in Durham by late evening. I was disappointed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanairlines.com\">airline&#8217;s<\/a> refusal to ease the cost of the overpriced flight despite a death in the family. With my upcoming expenses for conferences and interviews, I&#8217;ll need to starting saving up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My weekend trip to NYC this past weekend was my first visit back home in a long time, but also sadly an inauspicious one. I had just come home from a Friday mixer with the new residents and fellow when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2013\/07\/15\/family-reunion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}