{"id":276,"date":"2006-06-01T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2006-06-01T07:01:41","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T14:01:41","slug":"the-blanton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"The Blanton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blantonFun.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/blantonFun.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<Font color=\"ccc000\">Ford, 5.28.2006.  Blanton Museum of Art; Austin.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Ford is so challenging. He was the only kid today with dry hair at the end of swim class; he refuses to bob underwater. Through the glass door I watched him dismiss the coach&#8217;s instructions with a wave and an upturned nose. I wanted to step in and dunk him, myself. This is why I&#8217;m paying someone else to teach him to swim; separating my feelings from the task is difficult. All I want him to do is try. But the child just doesn&#8217;t want to swim yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford, 5.28.2006. Blanton Museum of Art; Austin. Ford is so challenging. He was the only kid today with dry hair at the end of swim class; he refuses to bob underwater. Through the glass door I watched him dismiss the coach&#8217;s instructions with a wave and an upturned nose. I wanted to step in and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}