{"id":3092,"date":"2011-07-25T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:12:51","slug":"joe-turned-18-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3092","title":{"rendered":"Joe turned 18 yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe spent most of the day hanging out with a few friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here he is in the backyard prior to a small barbeque &#8211; the shirt says &#8220;My idea of a balanced diet &#8230; a BEER in each hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great (sarcasm!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaves for RIT in less than five weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2014e8a199f6d970d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12087\" title=\"IMG_4638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2014e8a199f6d970d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2014e8a199f6d970d-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, here he is at five weeks old, a few minutes after we met him &#8211; that&#8217;s Brigid in the second picture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"217\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2015433f9c001970c-320wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12086\" title=\"Joecopy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2015433f9c001970c-320wi.jpg 320w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2015433f9c001970c-320wi-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2014e8a19a0e5970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2014e8a19a15c970d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12085\" title=\"Joe3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2014e8a19a15c970d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2014e8a19a15c970d-500wi-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>last one &#8211; a few weeks later, at my friend Bill Connolly&#8217;s office in New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"283\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2015433f9c101970c-320wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084\" title=\"Joe2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2015433f9c101970c-320wi.jpg 283w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2015433f9c101970c-320wi-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe spent most of the day hanging out with a few friends. Here he is in the backyard prior to a small barbeque &#8211; the shirt says &#8220;My idea of a balanced diet &#8230; a BEER in each hand.&#8221; Great (sarcasm!). Leaves for RIT in less than five weeks. &nbsp; Now, here he is at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12088,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/12088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}