{"id":7054,"date":"2021-08-07T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","slug":"first-day-as-a-freshman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7054","title":{"rendered":"FIRST DAY AS A FRESHMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time in our family history, Sarah was all alone for our annual &#8220;first day of school&#8221; photo shoot this morning. And off to high school for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210806_070408_HDR-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1079\" height=\"1618\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her verdict at the end of the day was, &#8220;High school is SO MUCH BETTER than middle school!&#8221; Melissa and I are glad\u00a0 to hear that. Undoubtedly, a big part of her enthusiasm is the fact she has a known friend or two in just about every class and over her lunch time as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarah is doing show choir this school year, so that promises to be a fun experience. She&#8217;s also hoping to do dance classes in Franklin twice a week. Melissa and I MIGHT be able to swing that with her being an &#8220;only child&#8221; from here on out.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in our family history, Sarah was all alone for our annual &#8220;first day of school&#8221; photo shoot this morning. And off to high school for the first time.\u00a0 Her verdict at the end of the day was, &#8220;High school is SO MUCH BETTER than middle school!&#8221; Melissa and I are glad\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7054","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\/7054","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=7054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}