{"id":4324,"date":"2026-10-11T13:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:43:45","slug":"baby-shower-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/11\/baby-shower-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today was Natalie&#8217;s baby shower (Or is it really Chloe&#8217;s baby shower?) and boy, it was a busy morning getting ready.  Lisa cleaned and cleaned, and then cleaned a little more, and I went and did all the shopping, with a very well defined list of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then it all came together at the house around 2pm the guests started flowing in. Family, friends, everyone you could imagine was there &#8211; house was full, patio was full, and the backyard was full &#8211; people everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dang!  Loads and loads of gifts. massive amounts of food, snacks, drinks, cookies &#8211; you name it, we were eating it!  Yuuumy!  And it was fun to see everyone, it has been a while.  Quite the party!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did not do an official count but I know where was well over 60 people here, one of the bigger parties we have had!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fun for all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations Jake and Natalie, and baby Chole!  I can&#8217;t wait to meet you!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Day 284 &#8211;<\/strong> Begin where you are, with what you have, and let that be enough for today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tad Brooker &#8211; Chief AI Officer \/ Technology leader<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Experience meets the next era of AI.<\/strong> &nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/tad.fyi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tad.fyi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three decades of hands-on technology experience. A practical perspective on how artificial intelligence can shape the way we work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Natalie&#8217;s baby shower (Or is it really Chloe&#8217;s baby shower?) and boy, it was a busy morning getting ready. Lisa cleaned and cleaned, and then cleaned a little more, and I went and did all the shopping, with a very well defined list of course. And then it all came together at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}