{"id":261,"date":"2004-12-14T21:56:53","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T11:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=261"},"modified":"2004-12-14T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T11:56:53","slug":"well-the-big-news-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Well, the big news for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the big news for today was Emily&#8217;s first grown-up dance.<br \/>\nShe finishes Primary School next week, and they have a mini-prom to celebrate. She picked her dress, she picked her tiara, she decided how she wanted her hair done. I was a little worried that she was overdone.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"emdressclose.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/emdressclose.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"324\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"emdress.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/emdress.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"390\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nHowever, when we arrived at the venue, Em was nowhere <i>near<\/i> overdone. Some of these eleven and twelve year olds were in <i>evening gowns<\/i>. Several girls were wearing tiara&#8217;s, and Em&#8217;s was the smallest.<br \/>\nI might be her mother, but I think my Emily was the prettiest \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nAs an added bonus, my DH and I went downstairs (the venue was a local club), played the pokies (won $45!) then got to have dinner together, just the two of us. I can&#8217;t remember the last time that happened \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the big news for today was Emily&#8217;s first grown-up dance. She finishes Primary School next week, and they have a mini-prom to celebrate. She picked her dress, she picked her tiara, she decided how she wanted her hair done. I was a little worried that she was overdone. However, when we arrived at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}