{"id":185276,"date":"2011-08-14T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/14\/vengeance-is-mine-sayeth-the-dad\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T00:06:00","slug":"vengeance-is-mine-sayeth-the-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/14\/vengeance-is-mine-sayeth-the-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Vengeance  Is Mine, Sayeth the Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img30.imageshack.us\/img30\/939\/20110814135143706361.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img69.imageshack.us\/img69\/2632\/201108142b135143706361.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>So, we want to a Bar Mitzvah today, and we told Charlie that since he was only 12, he needed to wear a suit jacket and a tie.<\/p>\n<p>He was OK on the tie, but refused to wear a suit jacket.<\/p>\n<p>We are talking yelling, and screaming, and passive aggressive resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, we got him into the car, and put the jacket in the back, and when when we got there, it was held at the old <i>Washington Post<\/i> building, we got him to take the jacket in, but not to wear it.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of the evening, I asked Charlie if he could put on the jacket for 15 seconds, so that I could snap a picture of it.<\/p>\n<p>He put on the jacket, and I reminded him that he was turning 12 next month, and that&nbsp; his Bar Mitzvah would be a year from that.<\/p>\n<p>I then informed him that a suit jacket with tie was non-negotiable for his Bar Mitzvah, and as it sunk in, I snapped this picture.<\/p>\n<p>Not a happy young man, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we want to a Bar Mitzvah today, and we told Charlie that since he was only 12, he needed to wear a suit jacket and a tie. He was OK on the tie, but refused to wear a suit jacket. We are talking yelling, and screaming, and passive aggressive resistance. Eventually, we got him &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,976,1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-family","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}