{"id":2854,"date":"2010-09-17T00:13:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T04:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2010-09-15T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T15:03:18","slug":"live-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=2854","title":{"rendered":"Live and Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my misgivings, my daughter packed sixteen (16!) chapter books for this vacation. I regretted toting any extra unecessary weight in our poor Prius, already stressed with four people and a dog and ten days of their presumably vital supplies. I pictured lugging the books home again mostly unread.<\/p>\n<p>However, in addition to swimming, tubing, badminton and boules, a little Botany sketching, numerous board games, stargazing with her brother\u2019s Star Walk app, and capably starting up and driving an 18-foot power boat (courtesy of the neighbors), here she is finishing book number 16. Now she&#8217;ll have to begin on her brother&#8217;s stack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/E16Books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2855\" title=\"E&amp;16Books\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/E16Books.jpg\" alt=\"E&amp;16Books\" width=\"420\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/E16Books.jpg 700w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/E16Books-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/E16Books.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/CakeWedding2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2856\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeWedding\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/CakeWedding2.png\" alt=\"CakeWedding\" width=\"140\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>Mary &amp; Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my misgivings, my daughter packed sixteen (16!) chapter books for this vacation. I regretted toting any extra unecessary weight in our poor Prius, already stressed with four people and a dog and ten days of their presumably vital supplies. I pictured lugging the books home again mostly unread. However, in addition to swimming, tubing,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=2854\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9,48,17,3],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-books","tag-ecs","tag-penink","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}