{"id":187,"date":"2008-10-19T02:56:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T02:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:57:57","slug":"washington-for-surgery-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2008\/10\/19\/washington-for-surgery-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington for Surgery &#8211; September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I didn&#8217;t get any blogging done in Washington, here I am playing catch-up again. Anyway, we left Hawaii on September 15 for Washington to have Tatyana&#8217;s brain tumor removed. It was a pretty stressful time, but as you will see, we had some fun, too.<\/p>\n<p>Tatyana didn&#8217;t have her appointment with the brain surgeon until Friday the 20th, and her surgery ended up being on the 23rd, so we had a little time. On the weekend, William came down and spent the night with us. We went to the Mall for a walk and he and Aliciya climbed up onto the Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Science.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_188\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0694.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188\" title=\"_mg_0694\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0694.jpg\" alt=\"Aliciya and William on Albert Einstein's lap\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0694.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0694-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aliciya and William on Albert Einstein&#8217;s lap<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_195\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195\" title=\"_mg_0700\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0700.jpg\" alt=\"William on the Mall\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0700.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0700-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William on the Mall<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_194\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"size-full wp-image-194\" title=\"_mg_0701\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0701.jpg\" alt=\"Breakfast Time\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0701.jpg 640w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0701-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breakfast Time<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We met up with Alexandra and Christina and went to National Zoo, too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_193\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"size-full wp-image-193\" title=\"_mg_0739\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0739.jpg\" alt=\"Guinea Pigs?\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0739.jpg 640w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0739-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guinea Pigs?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember what these rodents were, but they were cute.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0743.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-192\" title=\"_mg_0743\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0743-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Snake\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0743-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0743.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than anything, these three animal photos were just experiments with my new camera.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-191\" title=\"_mg_0752\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0752-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Toucan\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0752-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0752.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toucan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course, Alex, Chris and William had to be at school during the week, so Tanya, Aliciya and I had a lot of time to kill on our own. Since we were living just a few blocks away, we spent a fair amount of time on the Mall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0776.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190\" title=\"_mg_0776\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0776.jpg 499w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0776-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aliciya at Jonny Rocket&#8217;s<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_189\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-189\" class=\"size-full wp-image-189\" title=\"_mg_0809\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0809.jpg\" alt=\"Aliciya and I on the carosel\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0809.jpg 640w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/_mg_0809-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aliciya and I on the carousel<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I didn&#8217;t get any blogging done in Washington, here I am playing catch-up again. Anyway, we left Hawaii on September 15 for Washington to have Tatyana&#8217;s brain tumor removed. It was a pretty stressful time, but as you will see, we had some fun, too. Tatyana didn&#8217;t have her appointment with the brain surgeon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[21,15,20,23,14,159,22,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}