{"id":474,"date":"2011-05-15T23:16:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T23:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/?p=474"},"modified":"2020-02-15T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:20:08","slug":"474-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/474-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 71 &#8211; My youngest son Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-476 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NicholasatPoppyFest.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NicholasatPoppyFest.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NicholasatPoppyFest.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>My youngest son, Nicholas.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas is 17 and a very, very talented and funny young man. I&#8217;m proud to be his Daddy.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas is one of the funniest kids I know. Kim would say he clearly he takes after his mother. He is a talented guitar player with a passion for rock and roll from the era that I grew up listening to.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a member of two bands &#8220;Organized Chaos&#8221; (formerly Glayden) and &#8220;Grounded&#8221; (named in his &#8220;honor&#8221; as he seems to spend a lot of time grounded). You can see a video of him below playing with Organized Chaos on our back porch<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the tall, skinny lefty with the Arctic White Fender Stratocaster with the Maple Neck playing lead guitar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He is a naturally talented musician and can play guitar by ear. He&#8217;ll pick up an instrument he&#8217;s never played before, mess with it for a minute or two, then he&#8217;s play something musical on it, whereas, if I pick it up it sounds like someone beating on an instrument. He plays guitar, bass, drums, and saxophone. The guitar is his strong suit. It&#8217;s probably the 1-2 hours every day that he spends playing it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uCocN8bibWM\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His two bands tied for third place in the Liberty Hill&#8217;s Got Talent contest.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently a Junior at Liberty Hill High School. He plays Saxophone in the high school band and has tried out as Section leader (which gets announced tomorrow &#8211; so watch for an update) for his senior year. \u00a0He excels in band and history and he&#8217;s especially passionate about music and the military.<\/p>\n<p>Since he was a little kid he&#8217;s had a big heart, a love for animals and a wickedly funny sense of humor. He currently has 3 pet chickens that provide the family with fresh eggs and he takes care of them every day without having to be told. He&#8217;s excited about politics and very happy that he&#8217;ll be able to vote in the next presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently leaning towards joining the Marine Corps after graduation. He&#8217;d love to make a living as a musician but recognizes that&#8217;s a hard way to make it in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**Update&#8230; since the original article posted it was announced that he is &#8220;Field Captain&#8221; for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My youngest son, Nicholas. Nicholas is 17 and a very, very talented and funny young man. I&#8217;m proud to be his Daddy. Nicholas is one of the funniest kids I know. Kim would say he clearly he takes after his mother. He is a talented guitar player with a passion for rock and roll from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-days-of-gratitude"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}