{"id":1035,"date":"2008-07-30T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2008-07-30T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T11:04:00","slug":"a-success-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"A success in the family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author Michael Carr has stated that: &#8220;All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others&#8221;. I was reminded of this comment this week when I received some news from my younger brother.<br \/>\nWe were three kids in Manchester in the 1960s. My sister Silvia and I both did well at a school and went on to do degrees at university. Our younger brother Ralph struggled academically at school and eventually became a postman.<br \/>\nLater though, he took his degree and then his MA and then his PhD &#8211; you can check his credentials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business.salford.ac.uk\/staff\/ralphdarlington\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nHe has just become a professor at the University of Salford. Well done, our kid!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author Michael Carr has stated that: &#8220;All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others&#8221;. I was reminded of this comment this week when I received some news from my younger brother. We were three kids in Manchester in the 1960s. My sister Silvia and I both did well at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}