{"id":812,"date":"2006-11-27T09:59:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/a-little-self-realization\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T15:11:17","slug":"a-little-self-realization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/a-little-self-realization\/","title":{"rendered":"A little self realization&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, sometimes you just have to stand back and take a look at some of the things you&#8217;ve done in your life, and most importantly, some of the things you&#8217;ve done to others.  I just had one of these reflective moments this morning and thought I might share with everyone to allow you fine people to learn from my mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Just this morning I was on the blog here, and saw the random pictures that creep up on the side there.  Ah, so nice.  As I was enjoying these pictures, I noticed one that hit me like an unsuspecting spring-loaded mallet to the face (a la Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. style).  Here&#8217;s the picture of which I speak below.  See if you can spot the grave overly-protective motherly error made here.  Take a second.  In fact take all the time you need.  I&#8217;m sure the average person would spot it in about .000001 of a millisecond.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly.  This just goes to show what type of patient and tolerant person Jordy is.  Despite the ridiculous hat that her mother has forced her to wear IN A HOT TUB, she still appears to be having a great time.  A big thanks to Ali and Jim for humouring me on such an erroneous parental move.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to chalk it up to being (at the time) a hot tub virgin, but really&#8230; I think that&#8217;s a bit weak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/void()\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jan-04 Hot tub fun @ Jims.jpg\" id=\"image811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Jan-04%20Hot%20tub%20fun%20@%20Jims.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, sometimes you just have to stand back and take a look at some of the things you&#8217;ve done in your life, and most importantly, some of the things you&#8217;ve done to others. I just had one of these reflective &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/a-little-self-realization\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-d6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}