{"id":3610,"date":"2009-07-24T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T11:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:01:37","slug":"yikes-joe-16-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"YIKES!   Joe &#8211; 16 today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wow. It&#8217;s just before noon and I went home for a couple of minutes to find his social security card, which he needs to get his learner&#8217;s permit to drive. He was back from his job today very early, which is convenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here he is just now, seemingly studying for the learner permit test<\/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\/2009\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115722f3efe970b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115722f3efe970b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115722f3efe970b-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in reality &#8211; snoozing.<\/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\/2009\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115713ab31e970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115713ab31e970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115713ab31e970c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the birthday cookie, already missing a couple of bits<\/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\/2009\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115713ab42b970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115713ab42b970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115713ab42b970c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brigid has prepared a couple of neat things for Joe, including &#8211; I think &#8211; a picture of him every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. It&#8217;s just before noon and I went home for a couple of minutes to find his social security card, which he needs to get his learner&#8217;s permit to drive. He was back from his job today very early, which is convenient. Here he is just now, seemingly studying for the learner permit test But [&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-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","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=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13899,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions\/13899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}