{"id":35053,"date":"2026-03-28T17:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35053"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:27:03","slug":"almost-18-and-almost-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/28\/almost-18-and-almost-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 18 and Almost 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My boys are getting to be adults, and yet&#8230;.  We have balls scattered around the fields of Nogglestead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ball1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ball3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ball2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It was worse a couple of weekends ago; they had a friend over and played a variety of lightweight sports in the yard, including football and wiffleball.  So I had to bring in a couple of gloves before the rain, and some equipment and\/or the lightly-weighted professional folder that the oldest is supposed to be giving away to businesses about the company he is doing business development for&#8230;.  That might have gotten blown away in the storms.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, someday, and very soon now, they will be gone, and things will be where we leave them, and balls will not inexplicably erupt in various locations.<\/p>\n<p>But, also perhaps soon, <em>grandchildren<\/em> might have the same effect.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven help me (too late), but I suspect I will be a better grandfather than father.  Although if my boys produce <em>girls<\/em>, who knows?  I do not have experience with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My boys are getting to be adults, and yet&#8230;. We have balls scattered around the fields of Nogglestead. It was worse a couple of weekends ago; they had a friend over and played a variety of lightweight sports in the yard, including football and wiffleball. So I had to bring in a couple of gloves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35055,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35053\/revisions\/35055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}