{"id":1731,"date":"2011-03-27T19:08:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T10:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-03-27\/1731"},"modified":"2011-03-27T19:08:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T10:08:54","slug":"anthony-finishes-second-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-03-27\/1731","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Finishes Second Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1731'>\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\n<div class='ic'><a href='\/i\/Anthony-2011-03-27--YearbookCover-e.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/Anthony-2011-03-27--YearbookCover-e_sm.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"700\"\nid=\"iAnthony_2011_03_27_YearbookCover_e\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Anthony's Graduating Second-Grade Class<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Just <a href='\/blog\/2010-03-21\/1474'>as last year<\/a>,\nAnthony's class made their own yearbook, with the cover composed of self\nportraits by each kid and the teacher. <span class='nobr'>The Japanese<\/span> school year runs April\nto March, so now they're in the spring break between grades. Anthony starts\nthird grade in <span class='nobr'>a couple<\/span> of weeks.<\/p>\n\n<p>The quality of many kids' self portraits made <span class='nobr'>a huge<\/span> leap from <a\nhref='\/blog\/2010-03-21\/1474'>last year<\/a>. Especially\nnoteworthy are the girls' drawings, all of which display higher artistic\nmerit than anything <span class='nobr'>I could<\/span> draw.<\/p>\n\n<p>Anthony's innate talents, like me, appear to be elsewhere, but unlike\nme, he makes up for it with cuteness...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/Anthony-2011-03-27--YearbookCover-cutout.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"370\"\nid=\"iAnthony_2011_03_27_YearbookCover_cutout\"\/>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Anthony's Self Portrait<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as last year, Anthony's class made their own yearbook, with the cover composed of self portraits by each kid and the teacher. The Japanese school year runs April to March, so now they're in the spring break between grades. Anthony starts third grade in a couple of weeks.<\/p> <p>The quality of many kids' self portraits made a huge leap from last year. Especially noteworthy are the girls' drawings, all of which display higher artistic merit than anything I could draw.<\/p> <p>Anthony's innate talents, like me, appear to be elsewhere, but unlike me, he makes up for it with cuteness...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731"}],"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=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}