{"id":22260,"date":"2004-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/21\/still-growing-up\/"},"modified":"2004-03-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T06:00:00","slug":"still-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/21\/still-growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Growing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny, but I notice that our friends and I are all going through the same things in life. Most are married, or getting married, and many have kids. I think right now, I know about five or six people\/couples that are expecting a baby! And I know a few couples who have just gotten married or are engaged. It&#8217;s pretty wild to think that five years can make such a difference in a person&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I am really liking &#8220;growing up&#8221;. \ud83d\ude42 We were at our friends house on Saturday for dinner, and the kids (two 2 1\/2-year olds and a 3-year old) were enjoying running around in the backyard and playing in the sandbox and I found myself talking to my friend about the differences between St. Augustine grass and Bermuda&#8230; Then later we told them that we just bought a new mini-van (Honda Odyssey, and it is awesome) and we talked about our minivans (we each have one). So funny. It&#8217;s a fun time right now, and I am enjoying my family life a lot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny, but I notice that our friends and I are all going through the same things in life. Most are married, or getting married, and many have kids. I think right now, I know about five or six people\/couples that are expecting a baby! And I know a few couples who have just gotten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/21\/still-growing-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still Growing Up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5N2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}