{"id":2939,"date":"2008-04-11T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2008-04-11T09:49:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T16:49:15","slug":"a-sign-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2939\/a-sign-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sign of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sis,<\/p>\n<p>Thought I would catch you up while you are away at college.<\/p>\n<p>You know how <strong>I LOVE FAMILY GATHERINGS, <\/strong>especially the BloodhoundBlog family.\u00a0 Well it has been an interesting couple of days\u00a0lately.\u00a0 That crazy cousin Barry showed\u00a0up; remember him?\u00a0 He&#8217;s\u00a0the one that tries to agitate everyone over the dinner table.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This got\u00a0Uncle Russell going.\u00a0\u00a0You know sis, he has become so successful that\u00a0we all look\u00a0to him for\u00a0approval.\u00a0 Anyway,\u00a0he doesn&#8217;t talk much but when he does he brings\u00a0the thunder and &#8211;\u00a0you can probably see it coming &#8211;\u00a0he thundered all over cousin Barry.\u00a0 Finally, Dad had to give everyone a time out.\u00a0 We never even got to have dessert.<\/p>\n<p>In the past I\u00a0have found there is no better way to bring the family back\u00a0together than by uniting them in a common enemy.\u00a0 So I suggested we\u00a0direct our\u00a0vitriol where it belongs&#8230; AT THESE TWO GUYS!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Think of the efficiency:\u00a0 <strong><em>Everyone you love to hate &#8211; under one roof!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"top\" width=\"384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/sign-of-the-times.JPG\" alt=\"Lenders and Dentists\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2940\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?attachment_id=2940\" title=\"Lenders and Dentists\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it from the home front.\u00a0 I enjoyed the text book you sent me:\u00a0 <em>The Rise and Fall of Real Estate: A Case Study in the Application of Discriminate Disintermediation<\/em>.\u00a0 The funniest text book I have ever read.\u00a0 Keep up the studies.<\/p>\n<p>See you in the funny papers,<\/p>\n<p>Your loving older brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sis, Thought I would catch you up while you are away at college. You know how I LOVE FAMILY GATHERINGS, especially the BloodhoundBlog family.\u00a0 Well it has been an interesting couple of days\u00a0lately.\u00a0 That crazy cousin Barry showed\u00a0up; remember him?\u00a0 He&#8217;s\u00a0the one that tries to agitate everyone over the dinner table.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This got\u00a0Uncle Russell going.\u00a0\u00a0You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[133,134,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-2939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"tag-dentists","8":"tag-humor","9":"tag-lenders","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":966,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/966\/googling-for-pizza\/","url_meta":{"origin":2939,"position":0},"title":"Googling for Pizza","author":"Kris Berg","date":"January 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We had the extended family over for dinner last night. 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