{"id":49,"date":"2010-06-08T09:55:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T13:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2011-04-27T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:11:14","slug":"dressing-for-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Dressing For School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-70\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/?attachment_id=70\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-70\" title=\"snow_woman\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/snow_woman-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Woman\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/snow_woman-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/snow_woman-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/snow_woman.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a>Ruth came downstairs one day with her pockets hanging out.\u00a0 When I told her to tuck them in, she asked me why.\u00a0 &#8220;You can&#8217;t go to school like that.&#8221;\u00a0 Her reply?\u00a0 &#8220;Well, Dad, obviously I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another day Ruth came down in a dress that had grown way too short, but she still insisted on wearing.\u00a0 I told her she needed to put shorts on under it, and she responded negatively.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Ruth is very concerned about rules, and rules can often be used to manipulate her.\u00a0 So, I reminded her that the dress code at school says you can&#8217;t let anyone see your underwear.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly she had anticipated me.\u00a0 &#8220;But I&#8217;m not wearing any underwear&#8221; she says while pulling up her dress to demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth came downstairs one day with her pockets hanging out.\u00a0 When I told her to tuck them in, she asked me why.\u00a0 &#8220;You can&#8217;t go to school like that.&#8221;\u00a0 Her reply?\u00a0 &#8220;Well, Dad, obviously I can.&#8221; Another day Ruth came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/?p=49\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}