{"id":1124,"date":"2009-03-22T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2009-03-22T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T04:18:00","slug":"destined-for-great-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/destined-for-great-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Destined for Great Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my gorgeous nephew, Sebastian Berry, looking like he&#8217;s going to his company&#8217;s annual picnic in a tropical button-down shirt and khakis. I don&#8217;t know what that fixed stare is about.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Sbv72dYVJYI\/AAAAAAAAHX0\/Ke1q7Upm3os\/s1600-h\/n723147465_1928359_3102384.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Sbv72dYVJYI\/AAAAAAAAHX0\/Ke1q7Upm3os\/s320\/n723147465_1928359_3102384.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313117098431817090\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/ahbinhypmotized.org\/TeamHistory\/tabid\/73\/Default.aspx\">hyp-mo-tized<\/a>!&#8221;<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>People keep asking me if Mr. Berry looks like his mother or his father, but he looks more like Winston Churchill to me.  Bald, jowly, often observed <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=950DE2D71531F931A35753C1A96F948260\">napping<\/a>. Don&#8217;t you see the resemblance?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Sb5iJoaBpHI\/AAAAAAAAHYs\/6kjrSmnegEg\/s1600-h\/136532_f520.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 186px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Sb5iJoaBpHI\/AAAAAAAAHYs\/6kjrSmnegEg\/s320\/136532_f520.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313792527948686450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Winston Churchill<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/hubpages.com\/hub\/Picture-of-the-Day-29-November\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Photo source<\/span><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>No? How about now?*<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Sb5h06wT2VI\/AAAAAAAAHYk\/-C-y69nlAIk\/s1600-h\/sebbo-churchy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Sb5h06wT2VI\/AAAAAAAAHYk\/-C-y69nlAIk\/s320\/sebbo-churchy.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313792172096739666\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Told you so!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">*Photo illustration by <a href=\"http:\/\/observationmode.blogspot.com\/\">ENC<\/a>, as always.<\/span><\/span> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my gorgeous nephew, Sebastian Berry, looking like he&#8217;s going to his company&#8217;s annual picnic in a tropical button-down shirt and khakis. I don&#8217;t know what that fixed stare is about. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been hyp-mo-tized!&#8221; People keep asking me if Mr. Berry looks like his mother or his father, but he looks more like Winston Churchill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/destined-for-great-things\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,143,138],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gorgeous-family","7":"category-politics","8":"category-sebastian-berry","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}