{"id":125,"date":"2011-10-02T18:11:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T01:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/?p=125"},"modified":"2011-10-02T18:11:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T01:11:39","slug":"best-laid-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/best-laid-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Laid Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Minim Calibre<\/p>\n<p>Notes: Vague spoilers through &#8220;Croatoan&#8221;. Gen.<\/p>\n<p><HR><\/p>\n<p><strong>1983 &#8211; John<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spend more time with Mary&#8217;s family. Dean and his little brother or sister deserve to know them through more than Christmas cards and phone calls. Maybe it&#8217;s time to let go of old grievances.<\/p>\n<p>Finish turning Mary&#8217;s sewing room into the new nursery before the baby comes.<\/p>\n<p>Make a point of spending more one-on-one time with Dean. Make sure he&#8217;s okay with being a big brother. Don&#8217;t let him feel left out.<\/p>\n<p>Sell the Impala. Mary&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s hardly a family car. Maybe get something safe and family friendly like that Volvo she&#8217;s been hinting about, even if you can&#8217;t see yourself as the station wagon type.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1993 &#8211; John<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have &#8220;the talk&#8221; with Dean. Again.<\/p>\n<p>Try not to go out hunting around Sammy&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>End this thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2000 &#8211; Sam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Look into fee wavers for the SAT. Don&#8217;t repeat the PSAT\/NMSQT last-minute money scramble. No spending the night before patching up Dean or Dad this time, either.<\/p>\n<p>Set up a P.O. Box for college applications. Start researching grants (they can&#8217;t be much harder than researching ghosts, after all).<\/p>\n<p>Figure out a way to add an extracurricular or some community service hours to put on the applications.<\/p>\n<p>Come up with a plan for telling dad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2006 &#8211; Dean<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Find Dad.<\/p>\n<p>Get Sammy laid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2007 &#8211; Sam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fix this somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Winchesters, five sets of New Year&#8217;s resolutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamao.org\/minim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}