{"id":15105,"date":"2014-11-28T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=15105"},"modified":"2014-11-27T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T01:29:39","slug":"happy-16th-birthday-to-nick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2014\/11\/28\/happy-16th-birthday-to-nick\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 16th Birthday to Nick!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A joyous\u00a0occasion! My first nephew and\/or niece was born on this day. Now he&#8217;s in the prime spot of being a teenager. Recently his dad told me what he&#8217;s into\u2026mountain bikes (alright) and\u00a0skateboarding (hmm). The latter gets the semi-disapproving noise\u00a0because I grew up in the Eighties when skate rats were generally dicks. One particular rat was a guy in college we nicknamed Rubella (the disease) thanks to only needing to change the vowel at the end of his name. He wasn&#8217;t a full-timer yet he hailed from a lesser skate rat Mecca, Phoenix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m never going to fret. Nick\u00a0<em>is<\/em> a Maggi. This means, he may grow into a complainer like his dad and uncle but he&#8217;s not a bad friend to have. There&#8217;s hope too. Through age, therapy and taking a tougher stance on being a better dude, complaining doesn&#8217;t have to be\u00a0hereditary!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This year I think he&#8217;s in Seattle for the long weekend with his parents. Somara and I will scramble to find a gift card to a skate shop he&#8217;ll like. I made it clear to him and I will with all other kids, no cash, it has to be something personal if I&#8217;m going to grant a gift. Nick is certainly becoming more like his old man, he isn&#8217;t into\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em> or that other geek shit his uncle digs. I can live this. Just as long as Nick continues the tradition of pursuing a good education to become a well-adjusted member of society. Happiness is a big element. I just think never losing\u00a0your love of learning\/knowledge helps toward the happiness by providing more options.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joyous\u00a0occasion! My first nephew and\/or niece was born on this day. Now he&#8217;s in the prime spot of being a teenager. Recently his dad told me what he&#8217;s into\u2026mountain bikes (alright) and\u00a0skateboarding (hmm). The latter gets the semi-disapproving noise\u00a0because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2014\/11\/28\/happy-16th-birthday-to-nick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,29],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-15105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bday","category-news","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15106,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105\/revisions\/15106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}