{"id":38796593,"date":"2005-01-29T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2005\/01\/the-father-daug.html"},"modified":"2013-04-11T03:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:17:07","slug":"200501the-father-daug-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2005\/01\/29\/200501the-father-daug-html\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father-Daughter Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chriscasey\/6814584302\/\" title=\"2005 Luau by Chris Casey, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7200\/6814584302_b124269b07_m.jpg\" height=\"171\" align=\"right\" alt=\"2005 Luau\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a>Tonight was the annual Girl Scout Father-Daughter dance.  I&#8217;ve been going with my oldest daughter Katie since 1998, and for the last four years I&#8217;ve had a double-date, first attending the early dance with my daughter Colleen and the younger scouts, and then doing the later big-girl dance with Katie.<\/p>\n<p>Soon my double-dates will be double duty, as Colleen becomes one of the big girls herself.  And soon after that, I&#8217;ll fall off of Katie&#8217;s list of date prospects and I&#8217;ll be watching other guys drive her off to dances.<\/p>\n<p>This years theme was a Luau, and Katie&#8217;s troop put the whole thing together.  The girls (with help from their leaders and some step up parents) did a wonderful job.  And I&#8217;ve added two new photos to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chriscasey\/sets\/72157604075227495\/with\/6814584302\/\">gallery of father-daughter dance photos<\/a>, which I will treasure always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was the annual Girl Scout Father-Daughter dance. I&#8217;ve been going with my oldest daughter Katie since 1998, and for the last four years I&#8217;ve had a double-date, first attending the early dance with my daughter Colleen and the younger scouts,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38796593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMLv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38796593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354606,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796593\/revisions\/173354606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38796593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38796593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38796593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}