{"id":1783,"date":"2009-11-03T19:34:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2009-11-06T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T21:33:54","slug":"to-milestones-benchmarks-and-feats-of-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/to-milestones-benchmarks-and-feats-of-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"To Milestones, Benchmarks and Feats of Skill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some special days in the life of a Ross child: Birthdays, baptism day, the first day of school, and then there&#8217;s<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">THE DAY YOU ARE READY TO READ THE BOXCAR CHILDREN.<\/h2>\n<p>Timothy has reached that milestone. The book is tattered and coming apart. We glued and taped it together and embarked on the biggest reading pleasure in this young reader&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1781\" title=\"Boxcar Children\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Boxcar-Children.jpg\" alt=\"Boxcar Children\" width=\"261\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Boxcar-Children.jpg 424w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Boxcar-Children-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Hooray!&#8221; Mom cheered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Timothy beamed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then Mom said, &#8220;You should write about this in your journal!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1782\" title=\"Timothy October 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Timothy-October-2009.jpg\" alt=\"Timothy October 2009\" width=\"538\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Timothy-October-2009.jpg 538w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Timothy-October-2009-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do you remember your first fat chapter book?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here&#8217;s to that special day for Timothy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Applause)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some special days in the life of a Ross child: Birthdays, baptism day, the first day of school, and then there&#8217;s THE DAY YOU ARE READY TO READ THE BOXCAR CHILDREN. Timothy has reached that milestone. The book is tattered and coming apart. We glued and taped it together and embarked on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/to-milestones-benchmarks-and-feats-of-skill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To Milestones, Benchmarks and Feats of Skill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}