{"id":5319,"date":"2011-04-22T06:25:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T11:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/22\/118365-laces\/"},"modified":"2011-04-22T06:30:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T11:30:30","slug":"118365-laces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/22\/118365-laces\/","title":{"rendered":"118:365 Laces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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118:365 Laces<\/a>, a photo by Dani_Girl<\/a> on Flickr.<\/span><\/div>\n

(I’d originally posted this on Flickr, but by the time I was finished writing it, it sounded suspiciously like a blog post!)<\/p>\n

Via Flickr:<\/i>
\nMy oldest is not good with change but even I was surprised by the depth of his aversion to even the most rudimentary changes. He wore through his school shoes (I’m happy we made it from September to April, I think that’s a new record) and when we went shopping we found a pair identical to the old ones, which he immediately picked up. I showed him a few other styles and suggested he might like to try one on, but no, the exact same shoe one size bigger was what he wanted.<\/p>\n

The next day, as I was packing the new shoes in his bag, I told him to just throw the old shoes in the garbage at school — and he looked at me as if I’d suggested he set fire to them on the principal’s desk. "But they’re still good, they just have a few holes in them!" he said with obvious dismay. And that night, there they were in the bottom of his backpack.<\/p>\n

I pulled them out to throw them in the garbage, and hesitated over the can. I dropped them on the floor, added the baseball, and now they’re memorialized. Good old shoes, thanks for putting up with a lot of boy stuff these last seven months. Then I buried them in the garbage a bit, so he doesn’t see them. And so I don’t have to look at them. Because I was tempted to just throw them in the closet, yanno, in case he needs a backup for his backup pair.<\/p>\n

You can see why we won’t let him get a hamster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

118:365 Laces, a photo by Dani_Girl on Flickr. (I’d originally posted this on Flickr, but by the time I was finished writing it, it sounded suspiciously like a blog post!) Via Flickr: My oldest is not good with change but even I was surprised by the depth of his aversion to even the most rudimentary … Continue reading “118:365 Laces”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-tristan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5323,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions\/5323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}