{"id":690,"date":"2005-08-06T14:15:59","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=690"},"modified":"2005-08-06T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T22:15:59","slug":"im-a-big-kid-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/06\/im-a-big-kid-now\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m a big kid, now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a new guy, a boy in his early teens with thick brown hair and big teeth. Like a lot of teenagers, he had a short attention span and flitted from one person to another, starting stories but never finishing them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where are the kids?&#8221; he said. I looked around to see many of my fellow volunteers, other people in their 20s and 30s, but not many other teens. Youth group in the summer is unpredictable. Sometimes, a couple dozen kids show up. Other times we&#8217;re lucky to get 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We <i>are<\/i> the kids,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>He thought I was trying to make a fool of him, but I wasn&#8217;t. When I hang out with these teenagers, stuffing popcorn and red vines into my mouth, telling silly stories and laughing at stupid jokes, I feel like the biggest kid of them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a new guy, a boy in his early teens with thick brown hair and big teeth. Like a lot of teenagers, he had a short attention span and flitted from one person to another, starting stories but never finishing them. &#8220;Where are the kids?&#8221; he said. I looked around to see many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}