{"id":1217,"date":"2011-01-26T19:16:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T02:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2011-01-26T19:16:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T02:16:04","slug":"everyone-should-be-a-grandparent-before-becoming-a-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Should Be a Grandparent before Becoming a Parent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1218\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Everyone should be a grandparent before becoming a parent.<\/p>\n<p>Took my oldest granddaughter to dinner last night\u2014just the two of us\u2014and learned a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Like what she wants to be when she grows up: A middle school art teacher. &#8220;Because I like kids and art,&#8221; she told me.<\/p>\n<p>Also talked about 7th grade social groups, including preps (popular kids), gangstas (rebels) and emo&#8217;s (kids who wear their negative feelings for all to see).<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is eclectic. Although her personality is more emo, she has friends in all the groups.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I learned more about this child in an hour than I did my own kids throughout their teens.<\/p>\n<p>Because I was trying to listen rather than control her.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone should be a grandparent before becoming a parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone should be a grandparent before becoming a parent. Took my oldest granddaughter to dinner last night\u2014just the two of us\u2014and learned a lot. Like what she wants to be when she grows up: A middle school art teacher. &#8220;Because I like kids and art,&#8221; she told me. Also talked about 7th grade social groups, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}