{"id":255,"date":"2009-06-18T17:32:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T00:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2009-06-18T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T00:32:06","slug":"dancing-dads-the-end-of-6th-grade-and-a-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Dads, the end of 6th grade, and a physical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big couple of weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Sydney finished 6th grade, and coupled with the physical she just had, makes me acutely aware that she is very nearly a teenager.\u00c2\u00a0 The doctor (mother of one of her school friends) gave us the full rundown on where she is with puberty, plans for menstrual cycles, and even how to start discussions about birth control.\u00c2\u00a0 Excuse me?\u00c2\u00a0 Birth control?\u00c2\u00a0 Umm &#8211; no.\u00c2\u00a0 Just &#8211; NO.<\/p>\n<p>If news that i can actually wrap my head around, her recital was last weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 She was fantastic as usual, dancing in a can-can number that I could hardly believe.\u00c2\u00a0 Just amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 She also got called in last minute to dance a number she hadn&#8217;t done in a year, because another kid got massive stomach cramps &#8211; probably from birth control.\u00c2\u00a0 I also did my Dancing Dads thing, to &#8220;Jai Ho&#8221; from Slumdog Millionaire, \u00c2\u00a0 which the crowd loved &#8211; probably because we&#8217;re DADS, have very little rhythm, and generally suck.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever.\u00c2\u00a0 It was great fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big couple of weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Sydney finished 6th grade, and coupled with the physical she just had, makes me acutely aware that she is very nearly a teenager.\u00c2\u00a0 The doctor (mother of one of her school friends) gave us the full rundown on where she is with puberty, plans for menstrual cycles, and even how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}