{"id":579,"date":"2007-06-19T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T22:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/06\/19\/the-passing-of-the-torch\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T16:10:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T22:10:35","slug":"the-passing-of-the-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"The passing of the torch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan finally consented to let Cole start mowing the lawn.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 He is 13, after all, and should have the opportunity (and responsibility) of mowing the lawn.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So Ryan taught him how to use the riding lawn mower last week, and Cole&#8217;s thrilled to do the lawn mowing job.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Because we pay him.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not hard, really.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You just ride around the yard for a couple of hours and try to keep within the lines.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Cole&#8217;s done a pretty good job, and it saves Ryan a couple of hours a week that he doesn&#8217;t have to mow the lawn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"694\" height=\"520\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/09-Jun-2007\/IMG_5213.sized.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a win-win situation, myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan finally consented to let Cole start mowing the lawn.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 He is 13, after all, and should have the opportunity (and responsibility) of mowing the lawn.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So Ryan taught him how to use the riding lawn mower last week, and Cole&#8217;s thrilled to do the lawn mowing job.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Because we pay him.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not hard, [&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\/579"}],"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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}