{"id":1564,"date":"2009-08-16T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T21:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentingteensblog.net\/?p=272"},"modified":"2009-08-16T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T21:49:24","slug":"the-unthinkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2009\/08\/16\/the-unthinkable\/","title":{"rendered":"The unthinkable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/15.jpg\" alt=\"15\" title=\"15\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-273\" \/>While we were in the process of getting the mirror site set up here at our new home, and I moved our entries, and prettied up the site and started getting PTB up on it&#8217;s own two feet again&#8230; My daughter did the unthinkable on August 4th.<\/p>\n<p>She turned 15.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you understand when I tell you that this? is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE! It&#8217;s every bit as unacceptable as the fact that my oldest is about to start school as a SENIOR in High School! I&#8217;m not sure how they got to be so old when I&#8217;m still 16, but I suppose it happens.<\/p>\n<p>Peppermist&#8217;s birthday was a lowkey affair, with a promise to get her a gift when she decides what the heck she wants. She had her besties over &#8211; The Twins and the Two Ms &#8211; and they lounged in her newly cleaned room (The Twins and Peppermist had spent 3 days cleaning and even cleaned the carpets!) chatted, munched on junk food, and giggled.<\/p>\n<p>There was LOTS of Giggling.<\/p>\n<p>A party at Auntie&#8217;s house, complete with cake, extra icing and popcorn that ended up with a massive food fight with Auntie at the help and me and Nana staying well out of the way, and &#8211; made the day extra special, and homey. It just goes to show that all the expensive gifts in the world aren&#8217;t what makes a birthday fun &#8211; it&#8217;s time with family and friends&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and Rockband. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were in the process of getting the mirror site set up here at our new home, and I moved our entries, and prettied up the site and started getting PTB up on it&#8217;s own two feet again&#8230; My daughter did the unthinkable on August 4th. She turned 15. I&#8217;m sure you understand when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adolescence","category-daughters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}