{"id":3515,"date":"2005-06-14T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2021-06-06T23:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T03:13:51","slug":"congratulations-graduate-late-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/06\/14\/congratulations-graduate-late-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Graduate! (Late Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s part of the benefit of a last name starting with &#8220;A&#8221;: not only do you get a front row seat for your commencement ceremony, but you might get photographed for the local paper. Before my nephew Joe&#8217;s parents came back home Sunday, they discovered their son was on the front page of the &#8220;Local\/State&#8221; section (Section B) of the <i>Kalamazoo Gazette<\/i>.<br><center><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/joegradgazette.jpg?resize=500%2C470&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"470\" style=\"border: 3px solid #000000;\" \/><br><small>Joe made it into the news &#8212; and it wasn&#8217;t the Police Blotter<\/small><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s part of the benefit of a last name starting with &#8220;A&#8221;: not only do you get a front row seat for your commencement ceremony, but you might get photographed for the local paper. Before my nephew Joe&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/06\/14\/congratulations-graduate-late-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joes-travels","category-news","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}