{"id":3520,"date":"2022-05-06T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","slug":"21-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"21 YEARS AGO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-one years ago today I became a father for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were living in Pensacola, Florida. It was a Saturday morning. (I didn&#8217;t remember the day of the week, but you can find anything on Google.) We had entered the hospital Thursday morning for an 8 AM induction.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caleb arrived safely at 6 AM two days later. Yes, Melissa endured 46 hours of labor. What a woman!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at my face in this photo:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhrIiNLga1ygBb5GNKKazRLYviBgLJPDmGnXCxItIhiap6DSEL7Yg43HXR94lhCCFFL2IYWfwQH6Srw48tD-fwHsaR8t797xlmkQkfkGdacDa9Uv0qAH9h5S6NzqJmIKiqsP3vWtxTgwaq5X3d3jobohlsqDFB5p2FwKx2XotN66yYqsF4wOb9k2gBi\/w640-h640\/20220505_080541%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1079\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one years ago today I became a father for the first time.\u00a0 We were living in Pensacola, Florida. It was a Saturday morning. (I didn&#8217;t remember the day of the week, but you can find anything on Google.) We had entered the hospital Thursday morning for an 8 AM induction.\u00a0 Caleb arrived safely at 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}