{"id":569,"date":"2013-11-24T04:42:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T04:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=569"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:49:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:49:57","slug":"so-long-to-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/11\/24\/so-long-to-my-son\/","title":{"rendered":"So long to my son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than anything, I wanted to get something in here so I wouldn\u2019t forget when my son went off to Air Force basic training.\u00a0 Today is that day.\u00a0 I must admit that I\u2019ve been pretty depressed about the impending departure of my son.\u00a0 I\u2019m really going to miss him \u2013 he\u2019s been so fun to have around this last month.\u00a0 He really started to mature rapidly once he got that job at Michaels.\u00a0 As of yesterday, he quit that job because this evening, he leaves for the Air Force.\u00a0 Right before he leaves, we\u2019ll cut his gorgeous, long hair to donate to locks of love (no sense in having the Air Force simply throw away two years\u2019 worth of growth!), and then send him off to a hotel so he can leave early next morning for San Antonio.\u00a0 From that point on, we won\u2019t see him until he graduates in late January.\u00a0 We also won\u2019t be in contact with him because the Air Force will take away his phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than anything, I wanted to get something in here so I wouldn\u2019t forget when my son went off to Air Force basic training.\u00a0 Today is that day.\u00a0 I must admit that I\u2019ve been pretty depressed about the impending departure &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/11\/24\/so-long-to-my-son\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}