{"id":234,"date":"2009-03-15T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2009\/03\/the-luck-of-the-nat-ish\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T08:11:00","slug":"the-luck-of-the-nat-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/the-luck-of-the-nat-ish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Luck of the Nat-ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nat went to a Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day Dance (a &#8220;Shamrockin&#8217; Party&#8221;) last night.  All the usual suspects were there; the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklinequest.org\/\">Quest social group<\/a> plus others organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alctrips.com\/\">amazing Alternative Leisure Company<\/a>, drawing kids from neighboring towns.  Everyone in green.<\/p>\n<p>I just love watching people respond to Nat.  Last night, the woman at the raffle table asked Nat to guess the number of candies in the jar.  &#8220;One, two,&#8221; Nat said.  We laughed, and she said, &#8220;No, Nat, more!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One, two, free, four.&#8221;  Nat said, pointing at the jar, the way he does.<br \/>&#8220;Nat, I mean like a big number, like 92&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;92,&#8221; Nat said.  And that was his guess.   Later, he came home with the jar and the raffle prize.<\/p>\n<p>I watched him stride into the gym like he owned the place.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/IMG00326-778221.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/IMG00326-778215.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>And I guess he did.<\/p>\n<p>(photo of Nat and a lovely girl named Liz thanks to Heather!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nat went to a Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day Dance (a &#8220;Shamrockin&#8217; Party&#8221;) last night. All the usual suspects were there; the whole Quest social group plus others organized by the amazing Alternative Leisure Company, drawing kids from neighboring towns. Everyone in green. I just love watching people respond to Nat. Last night, the woman at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-3M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}