{"id":21,"date":"2007-10-28T14:44:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T19:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimarusti.com\/mentalsketchbook\/?p=21"},"modified":"2009-06-22T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T19:44:36","slug":"musings-about-my-daughters-eleventh-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Musings About My Daughter&#8217;s Eleventh Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few things more clearly mark the swift passage of time than watching your children grow up.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter celebrated her eleventh birthday yesterday, and aside from the disbelief that I am the father of an eleven-year old girl on the brink of adolescence, these are some of the other unsettling thoughts that occurred to me as I marked this occasion:<\/p>\n<p>-My daughter is closer in age than I am to the age I was when I lost my virginity.<br \/>\n-She is also closer in age than I am to the college students at the university where I work.<br \/>\n-She will be old enough to drive in five years.<br \/>\n-She will be attending college in about eight years&#8211;which means that if the next eight years of her life blur by as quickly as the past eight years have for me, she will be a freshman in college before I know it. (And my own college years still don&#8217;t seem that long ago to me even now.)<\/p>\n<p>On a more positive note&#8230; I will say that my daughter has become the brilliant, sweet, charming, and beautiful young lady that I always knew she would be when I first laid eyes on her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few things more clearly mark the swift passage of time than watching your children grow up. My daughter celebrated her eleventh birthday yesterday, and aside from the disbelief that I am the father of an eleven-year old girl on the brink of adolescence, these are some of the other unsettling thoughts that occurred to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimarusti.com\/scott\/artisticcustom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}