{"id":2007,"date":"2013-08-22T07:26:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2013-08-22T07:26:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T12:26:27","slug":"a-little-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2013\/08\/22\/a-little-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"A little extra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, I wrote a newspaper article about riding to school with my oldest son. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seminolechronicle.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2009\/10\/15\/4ad636fed00b1\">Here&#8217;s the link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That article featured an older gentleman we encountered on the bike trail. We&#8217;ve seen him periodically since then, walking the trail, sometimes with his lady friend and sometimes without her.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, we saw him again, walking with two ladies, one on each arm. They gave us big waves as we rode by, and called out &#8220;have fun at school!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We waved and continued our ride, playing our &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=1764\">If you had a<\/a>&#8221; game as we rode.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not exactly sure where this tale is going, but it struck me how cool it is that this guy on the trail has become a part of our life. He&#8217;s like an incredibly interesting extra in a movie. We really don&#8217;t know anything about him, but we love that he&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I thought it might sound egotistical to say he&#8217;s an extra in our movie, but it&#8217;s not. After all, in his movie, we&#8217;re the extras.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope we&#8217;re as interesting .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s tale is an out-of-schedule, odd wandering sort of thing. I hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-c"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-wn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}