{"id":8076,"date":"2022-10-17T06:36:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2022-10-17T06:36:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T13:36:23","slug":"assisted-living-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/assisted-living-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Assisted Living Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-8076\" data-postid=\"8076\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-8076 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Dad passed two weeks in assisted living. Here are my observations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve accompanied Dad to a half dozen meals in the dining room and have yet to see a phone in use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t get the Food Committee riled up! I overheard several members complain quite vehemently about the quality of the chicken fried steak, which Dad thought was delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I overhead one resident say she was voting for Kotek for Governor and how disappointed that her daughter was voting for Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been incredibly impressed with the staff. I wonder what each member of the staff is paid. Surely it&#8217;s not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was leaving the center one afternoon when two homeless men roughly the same age as the residents pushed various rolling contraptions full of cans and bottles past me. What a juxtaposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Perry Mason<\/em> is on four times a day on Dad&#8217;s new TV hookup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave Dad a tour of the center and showed him where the arts and crafts room was located just in case he wanted to participate. He said, \u201cDo I look like I want to do arts and crafts?\u201d We laughed over that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the garage, I found a 100-year old spike\/wedge used for chopping wood and it is serving nicely as a door stop for Dad&#8217;s studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I met the center handyman. Great guy. Said he was working downtown at an auto repair shop and had his rig broken into so many times that finally he&#8217;d had enough and found a new job across the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What goes on during Bible study at the center?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At lunch over pork chops, Dad recited the entire 37-line Matthew Arnold poem \u201cDover Beach.\u201d It&#8217;s his favorite poem and the one he wants read at his funereal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gents Club meets at 3 pm on Saturday and the listing says spirits are served!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read him some Mark Twain the other day. Mr. Twain has got to be the best writer in our history.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad passed two weeks in assisted living. Here are my observations: I&#8217;ve accompanied Dad to a half dozen meals in the dining room and have yet to see a phone in use. Don&#8217;t get the Food Committee riled up! I overheard several members complain quite vehemently about the quality of the chicken fried steak, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8078,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/8078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}