{"id":4907,"date":"2021-04-04T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4907"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"samuels-big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4907","title":{"rendered":"SAMUEL&#8217;S BIG DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hardly ever use this space to brag about my kids, but let me state for the record that each one is a unique and wonderfully gifted individual and Melissa and I have some idea of how incredibly blessed we are to be their parents.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, our third child, Samuel, had such an unusual day that says so much about his personality, I can&#8217;t help but to share here.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day started out with him buying his first car. He looked at it yesterday evening, researched it online, and even investigated possible shortcomings. But then, as a 17 year old who has spent most of his recent years living in Haiti, he plunked down $5,000 <i><b>of his own money <\/b><\/i>to purchase it. This is money he has earned over the last few summers and throughout this year, his senior year, working as a waiter at a local restaurant.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210403_104253-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1720\" height=\"968\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210403_204023-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1451\" height=\"968\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210403_204746-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"1290\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hardly ever use this space to brag about my kids, but let me state for the record that each one is a unique and wonderfully gifted individual and Melissa and I have some idea of how incredibly blessed we are to be their parents. Today, our third child, Samuel, had such an unusual day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4907","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\/4907","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=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}