{"id":9897,"date":"2012-06-02T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9897"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:56","slug":"seattle-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9897","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s what we came for:<\/p>\n\n\n

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My nephew, Jonathan, graduated from high school last night.\u00a0 The ceremony was beautiful and meaningful.\u00a0 Too often, graduations I have attended (including my own high school graduation) have been rushed and all too brief.\u00a0 This one savored the significance of the milestone.\u00a0 And beyond the graduation, there have been all sorts of fringe benefits.\u00a0 Neither Melissa nor I have ever been to this part of the country, so every new experience is such a treat for us.\u00a0 And my brother Ryan loves to show off this corner of America, so he makes an excellent tour guide.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The rhododendrons are HUGE here and they are all in bloom right now.\u00a0 This one is in my brother's back yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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It's a bit treacherous to get to the beach from my brother's house, but it CAN be done.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The kids enjoyed turning over rocks to watch all the tiny crabs scatter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The Drama Queen was willing to pick up crabs too small to give a her a pinch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Dats at Gig Harbor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Gig Harbor panorama.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Uncle Ryan took us to Sluy's Bakery in Poulsbo yesterday.\u00a0 It made us VERY happy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Jelly donut for the Princess.\u00a0 Dats has already finished his apple streudel and is wondering if the Princess will finish her donut or if he will.\u00a0\u00a0A minute later,\u00a0he did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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On the rock at the harbor of Poulsbo.\u00a0 It was a slippery rock – I had to pull everybody up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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This is how Dats and Ida have been spending any free time – reading through the complete collection of Calvin and Hobbes comics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s what we came for: My nephew, Jonathan, graduated from high school last night.\u00a0 The ceremony was beautiful and meaningful.\u00a0 Too often, graduations I have attended (including my own high school graduation) have been rushed and all too brief.\u00a0 This one savored the significance of the milestone.\u00a0 And beyond the graduation, there have been all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9897","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\/9897","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=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9910,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions\/9910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}