{"id":1611,"date":"2009-09-16T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T23:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentingteensblog.net\/?p=408"},"modified":"2009-09-16T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T23:53:49","slug":"look-out-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2009\/09\/16\/look-out-world\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOK OUT WORLD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/The_Happy_Dance_by_SteveRowlands.gif\" alt=\"The_Happy_Dance_by_SteveRowlands\" title=\"The_Happy_Dance_by_SteveRowlands\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-409\" \/>So, it&#8217;s been two weeks &#8211; and you know what that means, right? Yup. But first &#8211; I have to get something out of my system&#8230; you ready?<\/p>\n<p>HE PASSED HE PASSED HE PASSED HE PASSED!!!<\/p>\n<p>We just returned from the DMV, where the boy took his driver&#8217;s test for the second time. He spent the past two weeks telling me &#8220;I don&#8217;t care. That way, I am not disappointed.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t even really get behind the wheel again until a couple days ago when he and Papa (or Gramps as the Boy calls him) spent all day together, driving everywhere, and getting more familiar with Soldotna &#8211; where we don&#8217;t usually drive, and the woman took him last time (as they usually do &#8211; more traffic, lane changes, challenging, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>This time, he had a different tester, and I got a good vibe off of her from the beginning. I saw him pass the parallel parking first, and then took off&#8230; and turned toward KENAI &#8211; which is where we live and drive 95% of the time!<\/p>\n<p>The Boy: When she said take a right, I knew I had it. I KNOW these streets!<\/p>\n<p>They were gone for almost 30 full minutes, and then sat in the car and talked while I tapped my fingers and wished I could see his expression. Then they came to the door &#8211; and he GRINNED and I knew then he had done it.<\/p>\n<p>I refrained from happy dancing IN the DMV though, just as he refrained from grabbing me in a hug super tight in front of strangers, and contented himself with grabbing my hand and squeezing it nice and tight instead. I got the hug later.<\/p>\n<p>And happy danced. It looked a LITTLE like that picture up top as the news spread.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, baby boy. I&#8217;m SO PROUD OF YOU! 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We just returned from the DMV, where the boy took his driver&#8217;s test for the second time. He spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving","category-sons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","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=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}