{"id":83,"date":"2006-08-15T12:30:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycrican2.edublogs.org\/?p=83"},"modified":"2006-08-15T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T19:30:37","slug":"winning-the-game-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Winning the Game of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winning the Game of Life<br \/>\n8-15-2006<br \/>\nHi Readers:<\/p>\n<p>I have been sad lately because my first baby is leaving for college this Thursday. It is a hard transition to make for anyone. This Thursday will also be my 21st anniversary so I will be on a real roller coaster ride. I thought I would share a motivating conversation that I had with my son this evening.<\/p>\n<p>I remarked to my son that he was leaving on Thursday, I could hardly believe it and how did this happen? He told me,&#8221; mom, it happened because you won the game of Life&#8221;. This made me feel so much better.<\/p>\n<p>So, parents, there you have it. When you get to this point, you have won the game of Life. This is a wonderful way to look at this difficult transition. So, remember, that with every milestone in our children&#8217;s life, we are getting closer to winning at the game of Life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winning the Game of Life 8-15-2006 Hi Readers: I have been sad lately because my first baby is leaving for college this Thursday. It is a hard transition to make for anyone. This Thursday will also be my 21st anniversary so I will be on a real roller coaster ride. I thought I would share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[59,87,194,211],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-memories","tag-college","tag-game-of-life","tag-transition","tag-winning"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}