{"id":3889,"date":"2021-05-06T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"20-years-in-a-blink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"20 YEARS IN A BLINK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Here&#8217;s the man (!) of the hour on his twentieth birthday:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210505_204731_HDR-2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1918\" data-original-width=\"1079\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210505_204731_HDR-2.jpg\" width=\"360\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty years ago today, Melissa and I were starting our third day in the hospital in Pensacola, Florida. Melissa was at hour 47 of an induced labor when Caleb finally made his appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 5th, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this evening, Melissa and I made the 80 mile drive to Crawfordsville along with Samuel and Grandma Trudy to spend a couple of hours with the birthday boy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We took Caleb and his roommate Seth to the best Mexican restaurant in Indiana. We weren&#8217;t thinking about it being Cinco de Mayo. The place was packed out, so the service was slow. But the food was incredible.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I mean, BACON on a steak FAJITA? Genius!)<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210505_200817-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210505_204813-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Here&#8217;s the man (!) of the hour on his twentieth birthday: Twenty years ago today, Melissa and I were starting our third day in the hospital in Pensacola, Florida. Melissa was at hour 47 of an induced labor when Caleb finally made his appearance. May 5th, 2001. So this evening, Melissa and I made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3889","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\/3889","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=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3893,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/3893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}