{"id":3963,"date":"2008-02-18T10:02:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T10:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:30:16","slug":"joe-faranda-coo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3963","title":{"rendered":"Joe Faranda does brunch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The travails of being 14 years old. Yesterday Joe decided to try his hand at scrambled eggs and bacon for himself, Tim, and Brigid. (I passed; still suffering from gastritis.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Brigid, he had to crack <u>eight<\/u> eggs &#8211; he kept missing dropping them in the bowl. Also forgot to add a little milk &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the kitchen looked like after this extravaganza (with Brigid left to do the clean-up!) &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14226\" title=\"Joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_004.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_004-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14227\" title=\"Joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_006.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_006-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/02\/18\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_007.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_008.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14228\" title=\"Joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_008.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_008-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now here is something Joe is <u>really<\/u> good at &#8211; XBOX! Note the headset &#8211; he&#8217;s playing online and talking to the other players. Joe does not like it when I take his picture, but he was so into his gaming that he only protested verbally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_011.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14229\" title=\"Joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_011.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_011-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/02\/18\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/images\/2008\/02\/18\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_013.jpg\" alt=\"Joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_013\" title=\"Joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_013\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_015.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14230\" title=\"Joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_015.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_015-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evidently a Zombie zapping game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_016.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14231\" title=\"Joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_016.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/joe_eggs_and_xbox_21708_016-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The travails of being 14 years old. Yesterday Joe decided to try his hand at scrambled eggs and bacon for himself, Tim, and Brigid. (I passed; still suffering from gastritis.) According to Brigid, he had to crack eight eggs &#8211; he kept missing dropping them in the bowl. Also forgot to add a little milk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14232,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions\/14232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}