My mom was skimming through a library book, Life Is Friends: A Complete Guide to the Lost Art of Connecting in Person, by Jeanne Martinet.<\/p>\n
She isn’t crazy about the author’s idea: Invite people over for dinner. My mom would have to bring food from the deli section of Metropolitan Market. Her guests would have to sit on the floor.<\/p>\n
“And we would have to schedule dinner for the day the cleaning service comes.” Alas, so true! The book says don’t bother to clean for guests. I think they need to make an exception for my mom.<\/p>\n
“This book is so<\/em> filled with detailed instructions,” Mom said, leafing through the pages.\u00a0 “Look at this, Gracie. All these details about houseguests, househosts, challenging situations like drunken brawls…<\/p>\n “Oh no!”<\/p>\n My ears perked up.<\/p>\n “If you’re single, you are supposed to invite two<\/em> couples over to avoid the dreaded triangle…and preferably a single friend for yourself.”<\/p>\n Mom tossed the book ainto the “return immediately” pile.\u00a0 She got up from our couch and headed off to find her shoes.<\/p>\n “Come on, Gracie. Let’s go for a walk. We need to go by the pet store and order you some food.”<\/p>\n Yes! She just said the magic words. They usually have a treat for me, too. Dogs have friends everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My mom was skimming through a library book, Life Is Friends: A Complete Guide to the Lost Art of Connecting in Person, by Jeanne Martinet. She isn’t crazy about the author’s idea: Invite people over for dinner. My mom would have to bring food from the deli section of Metropolitan Market. Her guests would have … Continue reading Friends over for dinner? No way…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,43,30,27],"tags":[243,110,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}