Therefore, I have decided to hijack your blog post this month and have enlisted the help of your wife, Dani, to make things a little more interesting. (Don\u2019t worry, the blog post you submitted will run next month. So you are actually a month ahead!)<\/p>\n
Sincerely,
Tanya<\/p>\n
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DEAR DANI,<\/p>\n
Thanks so much for agreeing to help uncover the more personal side of Trent. He wouldn\u2019t do it on his own, so we\u2019ll just have to do it for him! I\u2019ve thought of a few things I\u2019d love to know about him (and I\u2019m sure his students wouldn\u2019t mind knowing either!). So let\u2019s get started\u2026<\/p>\n
What was he like in high school? Rebellious and wild, popular athlete, stuck with his nose in a book\u2026 Biggest pet peeve\u2026 Most embarrassing moment\u2026 Does he snore? What makes him laugh the hardest? What makes him angry?<\/span><\/strong> If he wasn\u2019t a teacher, what career would he have? I\u2019m sure some people are curious if there has been any . . . marital discord? Can you think of something that most of us at school wouldn\u2019t know about Trent? You know, something he wouldn\u2019t want you to share with us.\u00a0 DEAR TRENT,<\/p>\n Was that personal enough for you? Tanya<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DEAR TRENT, In your last blog post, I had hoped you would try to be a little more personal in your writing and a little less, well, deep. (Some of us are not quite as cerebral as you.) You asked at the end if you had succeeded. Unfortunately, if I was your teacher, you would […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secondary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"trent\"](\"http:\/\/insideout2.insidewp.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/trent-291x350.jpg\")
Do you know any funny stories from when Trent was a child?<\/span> <\/strong>
I think he must have enjoyed tormenting (he says entertaining) his younger cousins and siblings, scaring them with frightening characters in stories he would make up. Most of the childhood memories though, seem to involve shooting things like gophers, magpies, jackrabbits, salamanders, and his younger brother with a BB gun.<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/span>Let\u2019s just say that had I known him way back then, I wouldn\u2019t have had much to do with him. I guess he was a bit of a headache to his teachers and principals as he protested this and challenged that. He was also very much into music\u2014something he calls a \u201cBand Jock.\u201d I think that package might just have made me raise my seventeen-year-old eyebrow.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/strong>People who cut in line at the border really make him mad; he\u2019s written a post about that one on his personal blog. It bugs him that people say \u201cless\u201d when they should say \u201cfewer,\u201d and when they write \u201cthen\u201d when they should write \u201cthan.\u201d But Trent\u2019s biggest pet peeve actually involves me and it revolves around the manner in which cheese is to be cut. Who knew? Apparently there is a “proper” way to cut cheese!<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/strong>Apparently, Trent was so adorable as an 8 month old that people said he was too cute to be a boy, so his mother dressed him up in the girl-next-door\u2019s dress and took pictures of him, ribbons and all.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/strong>Well, Rob Bakker and Keith Stewart would say, \u201cNo, it\u2019s just gentle breathing,” but Tym Berger and I would beg to differ.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/strong>Trent has kind of a \u201cfractured funny bone.” He laughs the hardest at the snowmen that Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes makes, know-it-all Cliff Claiven, Archie Bunker, and any character that Patrick Warburton plays.<\/p>\n
He doesn’t get angry.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/strong>I know he is easily inspired by the ocean. Inspired to draw and paint. Art was one of his majors in university.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/strong>Oh yes. What marriage doesn\u2019t have rough patches? At our house, Trent does all the cooking and I clean up after dinner. Early on, I learned that tidying WHILE he was cooking wasn’t a good idea!<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/strong>Well, Trent and I like to travel and he is starting to fancy himself as quite the cosmopolitan sort. He still clings to his “roots” though, and delights in getting the best deal whenever he can. So, he still is a bit red faced recalling an anniversary dinner in Munich where he unknowingly ordered a glass of wine for $35. Not a tragic error until you know that he liked it so much, he ordered a second glass!<\/p>\n
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