{"id":8043,"date":"2013-10-08T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2013-10-08T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T17:31:30","slug":"daniel-age-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/daniel-age-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel, age 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0436.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8044\" alt=\"DSC_0436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0436.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0436.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0436-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0436-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>Daniel celebrated a birthday last week with Chinese food, cheesecake, and a new motorized scooter.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you a little bit about Daniel, age 14. He joins clubs and auditions for things. He&#8217;s a pianist in the jazz band, a member of the Senate, and this last month dabbled in debate.<\/p>\n<p>This week he is in a roadshow where he wears a shark costume and plays the scary theme from Jaws on his cello.<\/p>\n<p>He plays <em>The Entertainer<\/em> all of the time and his favorite dynamic is fortissimo.<\/p>\n<p>He earned 10 merit badges this summer.<\/p>\n<p>He has a good friend in Texas with whom he still Skypes almost daily after many years of separation.<\/p>\n<p>He loves engineering and computers. He mows our lawn. We depend on his rope skills, strength, and ingenuity on family trips and projects.<\/p>\n<p>He has a growing circle of spiritual, outgoing, and interesting friends.<\/p>\n<p>He was so happy last night to see the new episodes of <em>Studio C<\/em>. He is also a big fan of The Piano Guys.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the things that Daniel will do this next year. He&#8217;s definitely worth watching. My health problems during my pregnancy with Daniel meant that he went through a rough time along with me. I knew that we should name him Daniel because he miraculously came through the lion&#8217;s den before he was born and I knew he was a great spirit before I even met him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel celebrated a birthday last week with Chinese food, cheesecake, and a new motorized scooter. I&#8217;ll tell you a little bit about Daniel, age 14. He joins clubs and auditions for things. He&#8217;s a pianist in the jazz band, a member of the Senate, and this last month dabbled in debate. This week he is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/daniel-age-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daniel, age 14<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043","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=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8049,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions\/8049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}