{"id":42,"date":"2012-06-27T02:07:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T02:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2014-04-19T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T00:01:44","slug":"a-night-on-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"A Night on the Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My niece Nikki is the closest thing to a daughter that I&#8217;ll ever have. \u00a0She is about the age of my three boys, and grew up with them. She was actually the &#8220;best man&#8221; at my youngest son, Jack&#8217;s wedding. A beautiful girl&#8230;she is as smart and sweet as she is pretty. It is always a thrill to get to spend a little time with her.<\/p>\n<p>Sugarman and I are in Austin tonight, on a business trip. We had the pleasure of taking Nikki out to a dinner of wine and tapas at a fun restaurant named Vino, Vino. Lots of goodies &#8211; cheese, calimari, mussels and fries, and some great goat cheese cake. YUM!<\/p>\n<p>I am always impressed (though not surprised in the least) at how beautifully she has grown up. One of the joys of getting older is watching these &#8220;kids&#8221; grow up to be such astonishingly fabulous adults.<\/p>\n<p>Nik, it was a pleasure. I love you. \u00a0-em<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>My sister (Nikki&#8217;s mother) observed that the &#8220;nut does not fall far from the tree&#8221; (commenting on the following photos!)<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Nik-and-em-hmmmmmpdf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-46\" title=\"Nik and em - hmmmmm?pdf\" src=\"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Nik-and-em-hmmmmmpdf-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Nik-and-em-hmmmmmpdf-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Nik-and-em-hmmmmmpdf-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Nik-and-em-hmmmmmpdf.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My niece Nikki is the closest thing to a daughter that I&#8217;ll ever have. \u00a0She is about the age of my three boys, and grew up with them. She was actually the &#8220;best man&#8221; at my youngest son, Jack&#8217;s wedding. A beautiful girl&#8230;she is as smart and sweet as she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}