{"id":1450,"date":"2010-12-07T03:21:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T03:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2017-02-07T23:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T23:16:42","slug":"kids-vs-weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"Kids of All Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1462\" class=\"alignleft\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_1462\" style=\"width: 103px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/piratekid.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1450]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1462 \" title=\"&quot;Pirate Suit&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/piratekid-103x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/piratekid-103x188.jpg 103w, https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/piratekid-159x290.jpg 159w, https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/piratekid.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 103px) 100vw, 103px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1462\">Giacomo hated his tux, but was happy to wear it once told it was a &quot;Pirate Suit.&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Weddings are all about the kids.<\/p>\n<p>Parents&#8217; tears are an expression of sadness for the loss of their little girl or boy who now stands at the altar. \u00a0This primes them to react with joy at the sight of a little ring bearer or flower girl walking down the aisle (or hiding behind mom).<\/p>\n<p>But kids are also unpredictable. \u00a0In some cases &#8220;adult kids&#8221; cane be even less predictable than the young ones, such as when the pastor&#8217;s wife brought out a six-foot-tall purple bird puppet that had been a prop when the bride was in sunday school as a small child.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with your kids \u2013 however old they might be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Carley-Dustin_072.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1450]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1452\" title=\"The pastor's wife springs a surprise.\" src=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Carley-Dustin_072-88x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dave-Chaos_01.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1450]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1453\" title=\"He ended up with a milkshake.\" src=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dave-Chaos_01-88x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dave-Chaos_05.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1450]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1454\" title=\"Dave and the flower girl trade opinions\" src=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dave-Chaos_05-88x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Spencer-Ana_396.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1450]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1455\" title=\"Bouncer\" src=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Spencer-Ana_396-88x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weddings are all about the kids. Parents&#8217; tears are an expression of sadness for the loss of their little girl or boy who now stands at the altar. \u00a0This primes them to react with joy at the sight of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/?p=1450\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weddings","tag-originals","p1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}