{"id":5473,"date":"2015-09-13T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T03:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:48:37","slug":"day-69-six-and-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=5473","title":{"rendered":"Day 69: Six and nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 69: When I was in high school, any mention of the number 69 would send us into a fit of giggles. We thought we were very savvy and cool for knowing the code number for mutual oral sex.<br \/>\nWhen I first saw the symbol for my astrological sign, Cancer, I did a double-take:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image7-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"Cancer glyph\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image7-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image7.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The glyph represents a crab, Cancer&#8217;s mascot, with its round body and claws &#8211; not 69.<br \/>\nThe descriptions of Cancerians, by the way, fits me remarkably well: moody, sensitive, stubborn, a great lover of domesticity and good cooking.<br \/>\nThe ruling planet for this sign is the moon. Another 69 &#8211; that is, the year man first walked on the moon.<br \/>\nThat was the first major news event I remember being truly engaged in. To this day, when I look at the moon, I can&#8217;t believe we were there.<br \/>\nBut none of these things are exactly suited to my sentiment for this day, the 69th of this blog.<br \/>\nThe day was a perfect balance of rest and study, with a lovely walk on a day of weather perfectly balanced between summer and fall, and a perfect dinner that balanced colors and textures and flavors.<br \/>\nAnd tying it together is the balance that Tom brings to my life. A man I fit with, head to toe and back to back; who loves me even in my Cancer crabbiness. I would not give up a single day with him for a trip to the moon.<br \/>\nYes: 6 and 9. It&#8217;s a good fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 69: When I was in high school, any mention of the number 69 would send us into a fit of giggles. We thought we were very savvy and cool for knowing the code number for mutual oral sex. When I first saw the symbol for my astrological sign, Cancer, I did a double-take: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=5473\" class=\"more-link\">read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 69: Six and nine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[73,251,254,253,252,20],"class_list":["post-5473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-73","tag-251","tag-balance","tag-cancer","tag-moon","tag-tom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}