{"id":3323,"date":"2012-06-12T08:36:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T18:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2012-07-10T23:49:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T09:49:20","slug":"not-gone-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/not-gone-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Not gone yet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah I haven&#8217;t posted a lot lately. It&#8217;s been one of those issues where I&#8217;ve felt like I can&#8217;t post anything unless I have something important to contribute? \u00a0Is that fair to say these days?<\/p>\n<p>Not like my past posts have been all that\u00a0insightful. I&#8217;m the first to admit I&#8217;m a lousy writer and I can&#8217;t stick to a point. In almost 8 or 9 years of posting to all my blogs and media sources, I&#8217;d maybe count only a handful of writings I&#8217;m proud of. But&#8230;these days there&#8217;s so many more ways to communicate and share ideas with friends, my use of a blog format to share my thoughts is spread across so many other sources.\u00a0In some ways I&#8217;m OK with that. It&#8217;s made me a better consultant when I meet with my clients and tell them what works for me and what doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Hey I noticed my last post I demonstrated my LEGO project in-progress but failed to show the end result?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/finsihedr2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3325\" title=\"finsihedr2\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/finsihedr2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/finsihedr2.jpg 612w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/finsihedr2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/finsihedr2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/finsihedr2-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/finsihedr2-184x184.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This was an incredibly fun project, I&#8217;m considering making this a regular thing each year where I&#8217;ll splurge on an expensive set and just spend a few days working on something like this. Now my problem is figuring how how I might display this in my house without letting my toddler reach out and eat little pieces off of it, or having it turn yellow with the UV light.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of toddler (yes, I DID say I can&#8217;t stick to a point yes?). Kingston&#8217;s getting older and more challenging to manage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3324\" title=\"kingstonsilly\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kingstonsilly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kingstonsilly.jpg 612w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kingstonsilly-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kingstonsilly-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kingstonsilly-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kingstonsilly-184x184.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every day I question myself if I&#8217;m doing the right thing for him as a father. Do I challenge him with enough activities? Should I force him to do certain things or let him learn at his own pace? Is there some point where gaming is TOO much despite the fact I&#8217;m equally fascinated by it? The list goes on and on&#8230; \u00a0I would say this is my biggest project to date.<\/p>\n<p>Well, back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah I haven&#8217;t posted a lot lately. It&#8217;s been one of those issues where I&#8217;ve felt like I can&#8217;t post anything unless I have something important to contribute? \u00a0Is that fair to say these days? Not like my past posts have been all that\u00a0insightful. I&#8217;m the first to admit I&#8217;m a lousy writer and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}