{"id":2966,"date":"2008-08-05T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2008-08-05T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T01:22:00","slug":"the-day-will-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2966","title":{"rendered":"The Day Will Come&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, <a href=\"http:\/\/nsshere.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">nsshere<\/a> has been taking summer school at her new high school. One of the classes she has been taking is life skills, which isn\u2019t what I thought it would be&#8230; but is really study techniques and how to pick a college. So she\u2019s been going through all sorts of college decision tools, and coming up to us afterwards and saying, \u201cDad, I\u2019d like to go to &lt;<i>insert school here<\/i>&gt;\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the schools are back east. Many are private.<\/p>\n<p>No, we don\u2019t have enough money saved for a private school for her, but she is learning about scholarships, so if she addresses that hurdle, there\u2019s a bigger one I\u2019ll have to face. Her moving out. Yes, this is four years away. But still, as a parent, it is a hard thing to contemplate. She\u2019s actually a neat person to have around the house, and I enjoy talking to her. <\/p>\n<p>So, on the one hand, I want her to go to the school of her dreams, whereever it is. On the other hand, I wouldn\u2019t mind her going to CSUN or UCLA or any school in Southern California, just so she\u2019s close by.<\/p>\n<p>I guess every parent faces this. I guess, as children, we never realized what our parents went through when we moved out.*<\/p>\n<p>(*: unless, of course, your parents actually wanted you out of the house. You get the clue when you come home from High School graduation and find your room packed for you.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, nsshere has been taking summer school at her new high school. One of the classes she has been taking is life skills, which isn\u2019t what I thought it would be&#8230; but is really study techniques and how to pick a college. So she\u2019s been going through all sorts of college decision tools, and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2966\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,461],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-nsshere","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}