{"id":1046,"date":"2013-01-24T07:24:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T12:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ae0.92e.myftpupload.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2013-01-24T07:33:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T12:33:49","slug":"they-grew-up-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"They grew up so fast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?attachment_id=1045\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1045\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1045\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/P1010130-300x284.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/P1010130-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/P1010130-1024x972.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/P1010130.jpg 1177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I was looking through some pictures when I came across this one taken only a few short years ago.\u00a0 Two of them have recently gotten their drivers licenses, and the third one is\u00a0a few months away from getting his permit.\u00a0 These are my pajama boys of summer, who I have written about\u00a0in the past.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve had the good fortune of spending six weeks each summer with them, and several summers had them all to myself for four weeks at Lake Naomi in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 I do believe they had as good a time as I did, and it was probably the one time I really appreciated cell phones. They could roam around independently, spend countless hours sailing, kayaking, swimming and hanging out\u00a0on an island in the middle of the lake, and also check out the activity at the Club after dusk. as long as they answered on my\u00a0second or third\u00a0ring.\u00a0 And they did.\u00a0 Last summer was a different story though, whiskers appeared along with girlfriends.\u00a0 The two licensees now had a purpose to work, well maybe two purposes, a car and a girl.\u00a0 My time with them was limited, and will probably continue in that direction, which is how it should be.\u00a0 They were overheard saying though that now they can drive to The Villages, whenever they want.\u00a0 I think they forgot\u00a0a couple of reason they can&#8217;t; \u00a0school, \u00a0a job, girlfriends and parental permission.\u00a0\u00a0When I look at that picture,\u00a0I\u00a0can&#8217;t help but\u00a0feel their innocence and remember my own carefree exuberance and naivety at that age.\u00a0 It does not seem like that long ago.\u00a0 They grew up so fast, but didn&#8217;t we all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I was looking through some pictures when I came across this one taken only a few short years ago.\u00a0 Two of them have recently gotten their drivers licenses, and the third one is\u00a0a few months away from getting his permit.\u00a0 These are my pajama boys of summer, who I have written about\u00a0in the past.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}