{"id":25,"date":"2010-02-14T06:24:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T14:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=25"},"modified":"2016-10-10T22:12:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:12:21","slug":"of-earrings-and-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/of-earrings-and-aging","title":{"rendered":"Of Earrings and Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/father-daughter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31\" title=\"father-daughter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/father-daughter-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"Father and Daughter\" width=\"210\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/father-daughter-300x273.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/father-daughter.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>When my eleven-year-old daughter left the house yesterday to go to the mall she was still a little girl, but she came back a teenager. The lobes of her ears were pierced by ruby earrings. This is a new parenting landmark for me. I don&#8217;t think I like it.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it when she and her brothers and sister each learned to walk on their own; it meant my arms could start functioning normally again. I loved it when they all moved past the diaper stage; it meant my nose could start breathing again. But what am I to think about two holes in the fleshy lobes of her ears, designed for shiny objects whose sole purpose is to attract boys? I guess I should be happy that she&#8217;s the first child in the family to get pierced ears&#8211;rather than one of her two older brothers&#8211;but it made me feel older than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>And to make things worse, I tipped the news about Santa, thinking we had already gone over it before. The needles that pierced her ears did not draw what I drew out of her: tears.<\/p>\n<p>I guess you could say we both aged a bit this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my eleven-year-old daughter left the house yesterday to go to the mall she was still a little girl, but she came back a teenager. The lobes of her ears were pierced by ruby earrings. This is a new parenting landmark for me. I don&#8217;t think I like it. I liked it when she and her brothers and sister each learned to walk on their own; it meant my arms could start functioning normally again. I loved it when they all moved past the diaper stage; it meant&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[149,147,148],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-aging","tag-daughters","tag-fatherhood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/father-daughter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}