From John Gruber, a good example of the happiness & frustrating of being a parent to a youngster….<\/p>\n
Elise hasn’t gone this far yet, but we’re waiting for this to happen to her…..<\/p>\n
– Ben<\/p>\n
Daring Fireball: Vacation, All I Ever Wanted<\/a>: ”<\/p>\n We’re on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey. It’s just past 9 p.m. on a beautiful Thursday night at the end of a beautiful week of August shore weather. The boy, however, is out of sorts, in the way that two-and-a-half-year-olds who’ve skipped their naps and spent the day digging holes in the sand at the beach are wont to be.<\/p>\n The problem, more or less, is that the boy both wants and does not want to go on what he himself has named ‘the boat ride’: a toddler-demographic carousel-like ride consisting of a motley assortment of vehicles, including a race car, an old VW van, a few dune-buggies, some horses, and, oddly, amidst all this silliness, a lone howitzer-looking military vehicle. And one small, blue boat, apparently both water-and-road ready. Most of the vehicles hold three or four passengers (or perhaps ‘drivers’ is a better word, given that each se”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From John Gruber, a good example of the happiness & frustrating of being a parent to a youngster…. Elise hasn’t gone this far yet, but we’re waiting for this to happen to her….. – Ben Daring Fireball: Vacation, All I Ever Wanted: ” We’re on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey. It’s just past 9 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}