{"id":776,"date":"2009-08-31T06:35:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T10:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2009-08-31T06:35:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T10:35:21","slug":"first-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"First Day of School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"This is (ironically?) one of the few times Patty is happy to have her picture taken.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/fd2009\/001.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/fd2009\/001s.JPG\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-right: 15px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>I finally decided to get the first day of school pictures up here.  This is of course Patty and Eddy in their very new uniforms heading off to the new school that I managed to get them into.  I had some help, of course, but it sure was still expensive what with the cost of books, uniforms, and other assorted expenditures.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"And so it begins!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/fd2009\/002.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/fd2009\/002s.JPG\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: 15px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I am sure that they are going to enjoy their new school more than they would have enjoyed their time in public school.  I still would have had to buy uniforms, and they still would have had to be driven to school every day, so really it is not like I really spent that much more to have them in this school.  I know that I enjoyed my time at a non-public school, and really I am just hoping that they come to have that same experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally decided to get the first day of school pictures up here. This is of course Patty and Eddy in their very new uniforms heading off to the new school that I managed to get them into. I had some help, of course, but it sure was still expensive what with the cost of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-so-it-begins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}