{"id":1153,"date":"2008-05-12T23:19:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T07:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2008-05-16T16:18:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T00:18:46","slug":"its-a-rare-occasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2008\/05\/12\/its-a-rare-occasion\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a rare occasion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2489099812\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2117\/2489099812_b7441a861d_m.jpg\" alt=\"The Girl.\" width=\"184\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a> ..when my oldest daughter, my middle child, allows me to take pictures of her. She&#8217;s full of 13 angst and impatience, and preference for being behind the camera rather then in front of one, so I don&#8217;t push it, often. But when she relaxes, she is stunning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And some days, like today, her true colors come shining through!<\/p>\n<p>The rule in my house about hair color: you must be at least 12 years old, and understand that folks will point, laugh, snicker. When you can handle that, you&#8217;re hair is up to you, you make the decisions. Simple, no? Longtime readers here know that I&#8217;m no stranger to funky hair myself, so it seemed a reasonable compromise. Today, my daughter decided to take a dip in the color pool&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>with blue streaks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2488281795\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2230\/2488281795_b6ec9dba71_o.jpg\" alt=\"Dye\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2489099384\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2144\/2489099384_8d24c97d44.jpg\" alt=\"newdo3\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2488281915\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2065\/2488281915_596ea8bd57_o.jpg\" alt=\"newdo\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I AM SO PROUD! SRSLY! And of course, it&#8217;s even better because she let me take pictures of the process &#8211; hurray!<\/p>\n<p>Then, she was not finished yet. Nana&#8217;s been teaching her how to knit, and after partial scarves and some potholders, and random little things, she decided to design and make something of her own. She worked for a total of about 4 hours, and this is the result &#8211; a stunningly colorful complete with a purple button for added splash, fingerless glove.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2488282359\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2240\/2488282359_8341ededce_m.jpg\" alt=\"Pride\" width=\"240\" height=\"171\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2488282191\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2243\/2488282191_b46b6692b3_m.jpg\" alt=\"Pride\" width=\"240\" height=\"169\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>It&#8217;s so 80s! Again, I AM SO PROUD! *g* <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2489099572\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2134\/2489099572_a6d472e1a8_m.jpg\" alt=\"Pride\" width=\"166\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And so is she.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..when my oldest daughter, my middle child, allows me to take pictures of her. She&#8217;s full of 13 angst and impatience, and preference for being behind the camera rather then in front of one, so I don&#8217;t push it, often. But when she relaxes, she is stunning&#8230; And some days, like today, her true colors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,27,40,41,42],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primaries-family","tag-color","tag-girl","tag-hair","tag-knitting","tag-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}