{"id":478,"date":"2009-05-15T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=478"},"modified":"2009-05-15T04:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T10:00:35","slug":"pretend-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Pretend Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad01.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago we attended USU&#8217;s graduation ceremony up at the Spectrum. Dave walked, was hooded, and pretended to get his degree.<\/p>\n<p>He won&#8217;t actually be finished with classes until the first part of June, but they let him participate in the graduation ceremony anyway. Its too bad it didn&#8217;t mean we were done &#8211; but at least we feel a lot closer.<\/p>\n<p>The graduation was fun, and it was exciting to see Dave up there all decked out his graduation garb. Bridget thought that the whole thing was great too. Go Dave!! We are proud of you and your pretend graduation. Thanks for working so hard for us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad02.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nI sent Bridget with this disposable camera so she could take pictures of daddy at graduation too. She loved it!!!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad03.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad04.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad05.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The hooding ceremony was interesting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad06.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad07.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad08.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad09.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nDave with his parents. It was fun to visit with them. Thanks guys for coming up to celebrate with us.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad10.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Me, and my HOT pretend-graduate! I love you honey! Congrats.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Daves MBA Graduation\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05.15_grad11.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago we attended USU&#8217;s graduation ceremony up at the Spectrum. Dave walked, was hooded, and pretended to get his degree. He won&#8217;t actually be finished with classes until the first part of June, but they let him participate in the graduation ceremony anyway. Its too bad it didn&#8217;t mean we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-life","category-dave","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}