{"id":370,"date":"2013-10-13T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyw.net\/?p=370"},"modified":"2013-10-13T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T19:39:45","slug":"growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyw.net\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Growing up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life comes at you fast. You&#8217;re getting older. Obtaining more responsibilities. You never know who&#8217;s watching you.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years, I&#8217;ve experienced some lifestyle changes. First and more importantly is being an uncle. I would guess, typically being an uncle is all about having fun and enjoying your \u00a0 time with your nephew or nieces. My case is a little different. Well, I still get to have fun, but being an uncle for me is loaded full of responsibilities and being watched constantly by my little nephew. I share the house with my sister and her husband. While my sister and brother-in-law are doing a fantastic job raising their child, I also do the best I can to reinforce the discipline and love this house shares. Also, I know he&#8217;s watching me, so I must be a good example for him. Knowing that alone teaches me that he is a reflection of all of us, including myself. Therefore, I must continue to grow in every aspect possible while he&#8217;s growing up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/garyw.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ethanbirthday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-369 \" alt=\"Ethan's 4th Birthday\" src=\"http:\/\/garyw.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ethanbirthday-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garyw.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ethanbirthday-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/garyw.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ethanbirthday-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/garyw.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ethanbirthday.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethan&#8217;s 4th Birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life comes at you fast. You&#8217;re getting older. Obtaining more responsibilities. You never know who&#8217;s watching you. Over the last few years, I&#8217;ve experienced some lifestyle changes. First and more importantly is being an uncle. I would guess, typically being an uncle is all about having fun and enjoying your \u00a0 time with your nephew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/garyw.net\/?p=370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing up&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyw.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/garyw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyw.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyw.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyw.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}