{"id":743,"date":"2011-04-17T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/?p=743"},"modified":"2020-03-03T21:06:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T21:06:44","slug":"day-57-my-son-jonathan-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/day-57-my-son-jonathan-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 57 &#8211; My Son &#8211; Jonathan Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-746 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jonathanonbike.jpg?resize=300%2C272&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jonathanonbike.jpg?resize=300%2C272&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jonathanonbike.jpg?w=379&amp;ssl=1 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Today I&#8217;m grateful for my oldest son, \u00a0Jonathan, \u00a0who turns 20 today.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s everything that a Dad could ask for in a son.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s clever, funny, a clear, logical thinker and has an almost insatiable appetite for knowledge (and for food since he started college).<\/p>\n<p>All of his life he&#8217;s worked to be the very best at whatever he does and throws himself 100% behind any project he tackles.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently a Sophomore (with Jr. credit hours) at the University of Texas at Austin. He&#8217;s taking 18 hours of classes and is really challenging himself, not just taking &#8220;easy A&#8221; classes. He approaches his life with the maturity of someone twice his age, and better so than many of the 40-year-olds that I know.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-745 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MeanJonathanplayingchess.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MeanJonathanplayingchess.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MeanJonathanplayingchess.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>For fun he goes on very long bike rides with a group of others, he has competed in the Handball National Championships, he started a club about Finance at the University of Texas, he&#8217;s an expert kite flyer and spends much of his time researching stocks and participating in finance-related projects. He comes out to our place fairly regularly &#8211; and he doesn&#8217;t even bring his laundry to be done &#8211; he just comes to visit.<\/p>\n<p>He makes us proud each and every day of his life. I&#8217;m proud to be his Dad, I&#8217;m glad to be his friend and I hope that when he has kids they are as much of a joy to have in his life as he has been to be in mine.<\/p>\n<p>As a parent, you have to like your kids, or at least your supposed to like and more importantly, love them. I&#8217;d like Jonathan even if he wasn&#8217;t mine.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan &#8211; today is all about YOU. I love you very, very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m grateful for my oldest son, \u00a0Jonathan, \u00a0who turns 20 today. He&#8217;s everything that a Dad could ask for in a son. He&#8217;s clever, funny, a clear, logical thinker and has an almost insatiable appetite for knowledge (and for food since he started college). All of his life he&#8217;s worked to be the very [&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-743","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\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moreshowsmoremoney.com\/msmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}