{"id":1488,"date":"2010-04-05T22:33:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-04-05\/1488"},"modified":"2012-12-19T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T02:18:34","slug":"anthony-growing-up-the-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-04-05\/1488","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Growing Up: the Tipping Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1488'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"030583\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_030583.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_030583_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"615\"\nalt=\"Tipping Point 7 years, 5 months, 13 days old -- Sunainosato -- Otsu, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i030583\"\nphotostream=\"anthony\"\ntitle=\"Tipping Point 7 years, 5 months, 13 days old -- Sunainosato -- Otsu, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>1250 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_030583.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_030583.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Tipping Point<\/span>\n<br\/>7 years, 5 months, 13 days old\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I was suddenly struck today by <span class='nobr'>a profound<\/span> realization that Anthony's\n&#8220;young man&#8221; factor has started to encroach on his cuteness as <span class='nobr'>a kid.<\/span> Until\ntoday, <span class='nobr'>I would<\/span> see his mental and social advances (such as <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-04-14\/1187\">taking the city bus to school\nall by himself<\/a> <span class='nobr'>a year<\/span> ago) as <span class='nobr'>a cute<\/span> kid doing big-boy things, which\nmakes the kid in him all the more cute.<\/p>\n\n<p>Today we had an event where he dressed <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> nicer than normal, after\nwhich we went to <span class='nobr'>a park<\/span> for lunch, and <span class='nobr'>I kept<\/span> doing double takes at how\ngood he looked. Yes he's my kid, and yes <span class='nobr'>I think<\/span> he looks good all the\ntime, but even within that biased world he stood out today, and while\nlooking at the many pictures after we got home, <span class='nobr'>I realized<\/span> it's because <span class='nobr'>a\ntrue<\/span> young man has just started to emerge.<\/p>\n\n<p>Make no mistake, he's still cute and still himself thinks &#8220;cute&#8221; to be <span class='nobr'>a\ndesirable<\/span> characteristic to aspire to, at this point on par with &#8220;cool&#8221;,\nbut the reality that neither will last forever hit home.<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href=\"\/blog\/2010-05-24\/1529\" class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was suddenly struck today by a profound realization that Anthony's \"young man\" factor has started to encroach on his cuteness as a kid. Until today, I would see his mental and social advances (such as taking the city bus to school all by himself a year ago) as a cute kid doing big-boy things, which makes the kid in him all the more cute.<\/p> <p>Today we had an event where he dressed a bit nicer than normal, after which we went to a park for lunch, and I kept doing double takes at how good he looked. Yes he's [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}