{"id":17240,"date":"2019-06-29T18:13:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T22:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17240"},"modified":"2019-07-08T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:32:54","slug":"silas-on-hobby-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17240","title":{"rendered":"Silas on Hobby Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17242\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190629_167126.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17242\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190629_167126-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Silas and Iris\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17242\" data-wp-pid=\"17242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190629_167126-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190629_167126-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190629_167126-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190629_167126-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190629_167126-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190629_167126.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silas and Iris<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I was little we bounced on this hobby horse, made with a truck leaf spring to provide the bounce. Technically it isn&#8217;t 100% the same as the one we bounced on, as the spring has been replaced. It broke when an adult who shall remain nameless bounced on it, somewhere around 30 years ago. Although she doesn&#8217;t really have room for it there, mom has it in her apartment. Silas isn&#8217;t old enough to hold on and bounce on his own but he <em>really<\/em> enjoyed bouncing on it with his mom holding him. He&#8217;s a happy kid, in general, and smiles a lot, but watching his face while being bounced on the horse was so precious. Silas continues growing apace and although he&#8217;s not quite walking as of today, it&#8217;s definitely in the any-day-now category.<\/p>\n<p>Steve and his family were out of town for the weekend so it was a smaller group for dinner this evening, but a really nice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was little we bounced on this hobby horse, made with a truck leaf spring to provide the bounce. Technically it isn&#8217;t 100% the same as the one we bounced on, as the spring has been replaced. It broke when an adult who shall remain nameless bounced on it, somewhere around 30 years ago. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[131,37,1804,1803,1697,708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17240"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17247,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240\/revisions\/17247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}