{"id":291,"date":"2009-01-05T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/01\/preparing-the-boys.html"},"modified":"2009-01-05T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T17:56:00","slug":"preparing-the-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/01\/preparing-the-boys.html","title":{"rendered":"Preparing the Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/SWJJ4WGc--I\/AAAAAAAAZsA\/NiKQyZJwHJ0\/s1600-h\/photo-709466.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287870144840530914\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/SWJJ4WGc--I\/AAAAAAAAZsA\/NiKQyZJwHJ0\/s320\/photo-709466.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This not a rigid amount of time but I think it&#8217;s a good estimate&#8230;90  <br \/>days in theater, plus some travel time on both ends. Jacob will have a  <br \/>new responsibility: adding one number on the left, subtracting one on  <br \/>the right&#8230;every day till I come home.<br \/>With Jacob&#8217;s affinity for numbers this will be really good for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This not a rigid amount of time but I think it&#8217;s a good estimate&#8230;90 days in theater, plus some travel time on both ends. Jacob will have a new responsibility: adding one number on the left, subtracting one on the right&#8230;every day till I come home.With Jacob&#8217;s affinity for numbers this will be really good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[13,63,30],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-4H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3711,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2015\/04\/science-olympiad.html","url_meta":{"origin":291,"position":0},"title":"Science Olympiad!","date":"29 April 15","format":false,"excerpt":"In March and April, our family was busy with\u00a0Jacob helping his team for the Colorado\u00a0Science Olympiad tournament. 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