{"id":3279,"date":"2026-08-02T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:01:08","slug":"old-mackies-back-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/2026\/08\/02\/old-mackies-back-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Mackie\u2019s Back in Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August 2, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, we picked Adam up at the airport. He will be here this month and SL and I are happy to have him visiting. It is his first time here during the hot Georgia summer and the first visit since David passed away. He said it felt different riding home without David in the car. A thought I have often as well. The kids have planned to hang out, see some more sights and eat some of his favorite American foods. He had his first Texas Roadhouse experience this time and he liked the rolls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\" style=\"--aspect-ratio:calc(768 \/ 1024)\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3291\" data-id=\"3291\" data-aspect-ratio=\"768 \/ 1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0108-2-768x1024.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0108-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0108-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0108-2-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0108-2-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0108-2-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3289\" data-id=\"3289\" data-aspect-ratio=\"768 \/ 1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0110-1-768x1024.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0110-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0110-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0110-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0110-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0110-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3288\" data-id=\"3288\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1920 \/ 2560\" src=\"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0111-1-scaled.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3287\" data-id=\"3287\" data-aspect-ratio=\"768 \/ 1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0103-1-768x1024.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0103-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0103-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0103-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0103-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0103-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3290\" data-id=\"3290\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1024 \/ 768\" src=\"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0113-2-1024x768.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0113-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0113-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0113-2-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2, 2026 Today, we picked Adam up at the airport. He will be here this month and SL and I are happy to have him visiting. It is his first time here during the hot Georgia summer and the first visit since David passed away. He said it felt different riding home without David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}