{"id":3296,"date":"2014-06-09T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2014-06-09T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T14:49:06","slug":"quinns-favourite-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/09\/quinns-favourite-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn&#8217;s Favourite Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago we had the pleasure of meeting Quinn&#8217;s teacher at a program night at the school.\u00c2\u00a0 She made sure Nikki and I had a look at one of Quinn&#8217;s first writing assignments, which she thought was just great.\u00c2\u00a0 The assignment was to write about your favourite hobby.\u00c2\u00a0 Quinn had told us that he picked &#8220;breathing&#8221; as his hobby, which I actually had just initially thought was a cop-out topic, considering how many hobbies he actually has.\u00c2\u00a0 But, when I saw it I was actually rather glad he picked it, I think you will agree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/09\/quinns-favourite-hobby\/wp_20140220_001\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3297\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/09\/quinns-favourite-hobby\/wp_20140220_001\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WP_20140220_001.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,1278\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Lumia 920&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1392914886&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Quinns favourite hobby\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WP_20140220_001-576x1024.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WP_20140220_001-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Quinns favourite hobby\" width=\"474\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WP_20140220_001-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WP_20140220_001-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WP_20140220_001.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My Favourite Hobby<\/p>\n<p>My favourite hobby is breathing. I love to breathe.\u00c2\u00a0 Breathing the fresh delightful air.\u00c2\u00a0 Though it has to be the outside air with the shining sun staring at you, chirping birds flitting about and football sized sunflowers smiling at you.\u00c2\u00a0 Not the crammed dismal office cubicle air, with plump and sweaty old Bob next door complaining about rush-hour traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 Or greasy Joe spilling his coffee on the floor duct, flavouring the whole east wing oxygen with hint of chocolate latte.\u00c2\u00a0 But you gotta rough it with Bob and Joe because it makes it better when you hit that long deserved oasis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for Cael&#8217;s masterpiece&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago we had the pleasure of meeting Quinn&#8217;s teacher at a program night at the school.\u00c2\u00a0 She made sure Nikki and I had a look at one of Quinn&#8217;s first writing assignments, which she thought was just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/09\/quinns-favourite-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[402],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","tag-plump-sweaty-bob"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-Ra","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}