{"id":1015,"date":"2010-09-07T08:55:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2010-09-07T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T01:14:27","slug":"first-day-of-grade-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"First day of grade one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my baby was off to school this morning.  Grade one, I can hardly believe it.   She was nervous, but brave.  Some of her classmates were crying, but she was quiet.  She was adamant I walk right to the door with her, and when she was just about to go in, she wheeled around to me and says &#8220;Bye mom, I&#8217;m going to have a good day at school and I&#8217;ll see you later&#8221;.   How sweet is that!<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with a fun tradition, I made her a &#8220;Schult\u00fcte&#8221;.  It is a German tradition that on the first day of Grade One each child gets a large paper cone filled with candies and school supplies.  I wasn&#8217;t quite organized enough to give it to her in the morning, but she got it after school.  Here is a picture of her with it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/R-with-her-school-tute-IMG_6909.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/R-with-her-school-tute-IMG_6909.jpg\" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At lunch which wasn&#8217;t quite as quiet as I&#8217;d thought (workers installing shelves in our back mudroom) I fed Joseph some raspberries.   He made quite the faces at the initial taste!<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/J-tasting-the-berry-IMG_6903.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/J-tasting-the-berry-IMG_6903.jpg\" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my baby was off to school this morning. Grade one, I can hardly believe it. She was nervous, but brave. Some of her classmates were crying, but she was quiet. She was adamant I walk right to the door with her, and when she was just about to go in, she wheeled around to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}