{"id":983,"date":"2014-03-07T23:30:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T07:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=983"},"modified":"2014-03-07T23:30:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T07:30:37","slug":"rejection-of-a-two-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/03\/07\/rejection-of-a-two-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection of a two year old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a million dollar question&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Should we tell Amelia that she has now been rejected by every school to which we&#8217;ve applied?<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s visited a bunch of them, and is very aware that she visited a bunch of new schools. She has even asked about going back to them when she doesn&#8217;t want to go to school. Now we&#8217;re scrambling to figure out what to do next. We&#8217;ve got one option open that I love, but may be too complicated to pull off from a logistics point of view.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to have to scramble and find some schools in the Sunset.<\/p>\n<p>Between it all though, the big question is whether she&#8217;s supposed to know. And I don&#8217;t know why, but it&#8217;s a hard one to figure out \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a million dollar question&#8230; Should we tell Amelia that she has now been rejected by every school to which we&#8217;ve applied? She&#8217;s visited a bunch of them, and is very aware that she visited a bunch of new schools. She has even asked about going back to them when she doesn&#8217;t want to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[64,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-fR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":989,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/03\/09\/this-week-in-review-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":983,"position":0},"title":"This week in review","date":"March 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The week that Doruk was here. It's quite fun to have family around. I think that's true regardless of who's side it is. It also becomes a persistent reminder of how far away we are from family. 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