{"id":9466,"date":"2014-06-12T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=9466"},"modified":"2014-06-12T11:48:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T18:48:02","slug":"im-glad-he-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/06\/12\/im-glad-he-asks\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Glad He Asks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"text-books-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The books on his\u00a0shelf, mostly math, a\u00a0subject I could never fathom. But there’s one we share in common, second from the right, that NIV Study Bible.<\/h6>\n

We’re currently in Palo Alto, on a quick visit to our kids and grands. Taking a moment to write, I’m on the campus of the medical school of Stanford University. Specifically, it’s in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences section. I’m sitting in son Hyatt’s office, him behind his computer screen, and me at my paint-splattered lap-top.<\/p>\n

I have no idea what he does, or very little, but others who come and go\u00a0seem to respect him. That’s enough for me.<\/p>\n

I remember when we were up here last time and he was defending his PhD. I could hardly follow, but I was gratified by the satisfied looks on the on the faces of his supervisors and peers. Afterward, the oldest, an eminent professor and still going\u00a0at 85, just shook my hand and said, “Good job.” That was all I needed to hear.<\/p>\n

I was just now looking at the books on his shelf. Higher calculus, programming, sleep studies (his specialty, to which he applies his computer science and electrical engineering) and I know I could not read one of them past the introduction, if that.<\/p>\n

One gratifies me, a worn copy of the New International Version of the Bible.<\/p>\n

He’s a busy guy, husband of a great wife with whom, together they’re raising four fine children. Unpretentious, and still athletic, he just told me he won the U. S. Open Championship for jiu jitsu in his weight class. That was some time\u00a0ago but he’d overlooked mentioning it.<\/p>\n

We enjoy time together. Since he was young it’s our way to have\u00a0long conversations about life.<\/p>\n

He still asks me questions.<\/p>\n

I don’t always have answers.<\/p>\n

But I’m always glad he asks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say it skips a generation. I was the son of an electrical engineer, and now the father of one. Me, I don’t do math. Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9466"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9493,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9466\/revisions\/9493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}