{"id":236,"date":"2005-08-16T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=236"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"my-turn-to-brag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/08\/16\/my-turn-to-brag\/","title":{"rendered":"My Turn To Brag!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Beautiful Lauren Elizabeth Bates was born August 14th, 2005 at 10:55 p.m. She weighed in at 6 lbs 11 oz and is 20 1\/2 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>She is the 2nd daughter of my oldest son, Sterling, and his beautiful wife Liz. You should see her older sister and cousins. Man I do good work (bowing to loud applause and showing appropriate humility).<\/p>\n<p>This now makes four grandchildren, with two more on the way. This grandparenting stuff can get real exciting, and it is definitely rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to post her picture but it&#8217;s been suggested that that&#8217;s not a good thing. (I had to delete a bunch of comments here because they weren&#8217;t in keeping with the wonderful announcement, so I&#8217;ll blog on it another day)<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful Lauren Elizabeth Bates was born August 14th, 2005 at 10:55 p.m. She weighed in at 6 lbs 11 oz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/08\/16\/my-turn-to-brag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Turn To Brag!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Turn To Brag!!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/08\/16\/my-turn-to-brag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Turn To Brag!!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Beautiful Lauren Elizabeth Bates was born August 14th, 2005 at 10:55 p.m. She weighed in at 6 lbs 11 oz &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/08\/16\/my-turn-to-brag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Our Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Larry Bates\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Larry Bates\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/08\/16\/my-turn-to-brag\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/08\/16\/my-turn-to-brag\/\",\"name\":\"My Turn To Brag!!\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/3c42bfc1380d229c0fe8a65e6b7bbd6e\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/08\/16\/my-turn-to-brag\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/\",\"name\":\"Our Thoughts\",\"description\":\"Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/3c42bfc1380d229c0fe8a65e6b7bbd6e\",\"name\":\"Larry Bates\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d894c73faaf89236d281a6ddd776c15?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d894c73faaf89236d281a6ddd776c15?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Larry Bates\"},\"description\":\"My bio should probably read: Larry was born and raised in Calgary. 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