{"id":345,"date":"2006-11-11T03:55:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T10:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2006-11-11T03:55:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T10:55:36","slug":"blink-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Blink, Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/milk.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"milk.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/milk-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A double-take, and I see Ford drinking milk straight out of the carton; he is five going on fifteen. The array of cheerios on the table ground him solidly at five, though, harking back at two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/scepter9.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"scepter9.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/scepter9-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chas, meanwhile, sneaks a few steps ahead of me when I&#8217;m not looking. Here, he is taking a break from sit-down longboarding in the driveway, elated with the feeling of being able to soar only inches above concrete, all by himself. <\/p>\n<p>I have a cache of smiley moments to toss onto the page but not a lot of time to do it right now: the way the sun dappled through cool limestone shadows as we rambled through the canyon, grazing the chalky outcroppings with little fingers; laughing at the dancing chickens in our yard; standing on stools in the kitchen, cutting vegetables for a pot of soup and laughing at the carrots that kept rolling off the countertop and onto the floor. Despite the occasional headaches, this job rocks!<\/p>\n<table width=\"400\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/bull1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bull1.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/bull1-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/bulls.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bulls.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/bulls-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/bull3.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bull3.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/bull3-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/bull5.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bull5.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/bull5-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/bull6.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bull6.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/bull6-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A double-take, and I see Ford drinking milk straight out of the carton; he is five going on fifteen. The array of cheerios on the table ground him solidly at five, though, harking back at two. Chas, meanwhile, sneaks a few steps ahead of me when I&#8217;m not looking. Here, he is taking a break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}