{"id":8533,"date":"2013-09-11T17:21:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T21:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=8533"},"modified":"2013-09-11T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T21:21:29","slug":"the-adventure-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/09\/11\/the-adventure-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventure Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year since this blog started in 2002, I&#8217;ve marked September 11 with a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2013\/09\/11\/september-11-2013\/\">moment of silence post<\/a>, as acknowledgement that I don&#8217;t have anything to say that would be worth sharing with the Internet. This is the very first year that I&#8217;ve had any hesitation about it, because in addition to being a Very Bad Anniversary, this was also a happy day in Chateau Steelypips. This morning, we put SteelyKid on the bus to her very first day of kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, that&#8217;s worth breaking tradition for. Really, it&#8217;s as good an excuse as any to retire the tradition altogether&#8211; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wordmunger.com\/?p=1832\">probably time to move on<\/a>. Because, you know, life goes on, and while I still don&#8217;t have anything to say, pointedly not saying anything isn&#8217;t as important as it used to be. It&#8217;s time to let the past be the past, and focus on the future, where SteelyKid is going to school, and her world will continue to get more amazing every day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8535\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/09\/sm_backpack_lift_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/09\/sm_backpack_lift_500.jpg\" alt=\"SteelyKid&#039;s backpack is heavy, but she&#039;s very strong.\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8535\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sm_backpack_lift_500.jpg 500w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sm_backpack_lift_500-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SteelyKid&#8217;s backpack is heavy, but she&#8217;s very strong.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8534\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/09\/sm_boarding_bus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/09\/sm_boarding_bus.jpg\" alt=\"SteelyKid boarding the bus for her first day of kindergarten.\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sm_boarding_bus.jpg 500w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sm_boarding_bus-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SteelyKid boarding the bus for her first day of kindergarten.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year since this blog started in 2002, I&#8217;ve marked September 11 with a moment of silence post, as acknowledgement that I don&#8217;t have anything to say that would be worth sharing with the Internet. This is the very first year that I&#8217;ve had any hesitation about it, because in addition to being a Very&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/09\/11\/the-adventure-begins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Adventure Begins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}