{"id":354,"date":"2006-10-07T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2006-10-07T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T21:40:16","slug":"i-have-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"I have never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never&#8230;broken a bone in my body.<br \/>\nI have never smoked a cigarette.<br \/>\nI have never had a bloody nose.<br \/>\nI have never been to Oregon.<br \/>\nI have never rollerbladed (what a chicken, I know.)<br \/>\nI have never had surgury (in fact, I&#8217;ve only stayed in the hospital for childbirth.)<br \/>\nI have never drank beer (unless you count apple beer.)<br \/>\nI have never had a turtle for a pet, although we may soon get one if my son gets his wish.<br \/>\nI have never been to Alaska.<br \/>\nI have never had wild unprotected sex with anyone other than my husband.<br \/>\nI have never been scuba diving, sky diving or practically any other kind of diving.<br \/>\nI have never worn acrylic nails.<br \/>\nI have never gotten a tatoo.<br \/>\nI have never had tequilla.<br \/>\nI have never sung the national anthem solo at a baseball game.<br \/>\nI have never run out of gas.<br \/>\nI have never pulled out any of my kids&#8217; teeth.<br \/>\nI have never taken a drain apart.<br \/>\nI have never used a chainsaw.<br \/>\nI have never been a circus clown (or circus perfomer of any type).<br \/>\nI have never (and hopefully never will) put contacts into my eyes.<br \/>\nI have never eaten squid.<br \/>\nI have never been to Japan.<br \/>\nI have never met Donny Osmond.<br \/>\nI have never been in the Relief Society Presidency or the Primary Presidency(knock on wood.)<\/p>\n<p>Pretty boring, aren&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>I was going to stop there, but then I figured I should throw in some things that I HAVE done, so as not to look like such a boring person who never does anything.  So, here are some things I have done that may (or may not&#8211;probably not) surprise you:<br \/>\nI have had 5 children.<br \/>\nI have had at least one child in diapers for the past 12 1\/2 years.<br \/>\nI have been to the David Letterman show.<br \/>\nI have been to Germany.<br \/>\nI have been on two Disney Cruises.<br \/>\nI have gotten the <a href=\"http:\/\/honeymoons.about.com\/library\/weekly\/aa120202.htm\">Norwalk virus<\/a>.<br \/>\nI have been on National news (see above.)<br \/>\nI have been a clown.<br \/>\nI have gone river rafting.<br \/>\nI have won a $1000 gift card to Toys R Us from a local radio station (I still have $300 on that card.)<br \/>\nI have done dishes today.<br \/>\nI have been to Niagra Falls.<br \/>\nI have been on Music and the Spoken word more than once.<br \/>\nI have sliced my finger on an orange juice can.<br \/>\nI have known some of my friends for over 30 years.<br \/>\nI have sung singing telegrams to all the teachers in my kids&#8217; elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s quite an exhaustive list.  If you know of other things I have or have not done (my memory&#8217;s not what it once was, you know), go ahead and add them.  And what have you done or not done that&#8217;s unique?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never&#8230;broken a bone in my body. I have never smoked a cigarette. I have never had a bloody nose. I have never been to Oregon. I have never rollerbladed (what a chicken, I know.) I have never had surgury (in fact, I&#8217;ve only stayed in the hospital for childbirth.) I have never drank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}