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Washington DC, History, and Sightseeing with Kids
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Dads love historical past, monuments, and museums. In certainly one of nature’s cruelest twists, youngsters are, traditionally, not big followers.
Once I was a child, my dad LOOOVED taking us to the Wright Patterson Air Drive Museum. He was unphased by our groans and complaints, in truth he might have been fueled by them, as dads typically are. It’s not that he didn’t care that we didn’t prefer it. Now that I’m a dad I understand he took ambivalence as a problem, that he would have the ability to persuade us of how fascinating all of it actually was.
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My household simply received again from a visit to Washington DC for the White Home Easter Egg Roll. The final time I used to be in DC was 30 years in the past. I used to be 10. Coincidentally my son is now 10 (and my daughter is 12). So whereas we had been sightseeing, I consistently in contrast it with what it will need to have been like when my dad took me there in 1993.
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Our flight left Cincinnati at 6:30am. We left our home at 3am, as a result of dads love arriving tremendous early for flights. Dads like to beat the frenzy and dads love early flights as a result of the airport is much less crowded. And so forth and many others and many others. Some cliches are true.
One of many first issues we did was stroll by the White Home. DC was eerily empty Saturday morning however strolling alongside the north facet of the White Home a Secret Service SUV abruptly stopped and rolled down its window. “HEY!” Uh oh… “THE DAD!” Uh ohhhhhh.
Let me pause and say that my youngsters don’t suppose I’m cool. Partly as a result of no one’s youngsters suppose their mother and father are cool however principally as a result of I’m 100% completely positively NOT COOL. Their evaluation is spot on. However this was as if I scripted a scene that tried to persuade them I’m cool.
A formidable Secret Service Officer received out of the automobile and shook my hand. He stated “We see celebrities so much however I don’t usually cease. However THE DAD? I really like your guys’ stuff.” (As contractually required I assured him our content material is made by a staff of proficient creators and I’m mainly a boring enterprise man at this level.)
He received his police canine out of the automobile and let the youngsters pet him, though he’s a extremely skilled fight doggo.
My son advised him his objective was to play Joe Biden in basketball. The man stated, “Wellll I don’t understand how athletic he’s.” (Leaned nearer and lowered voice.) “Effectively, truly I do however I’m not allowed to say.”
As he went again to patrolling, I gave my youngsters a realizing look that requested, “Now do you suppose I’m cool?”
They responded with a look again that unequivocally stated, “Nonetheless nope. However the canine was cool.” Nonetheless, I’m so grateful to that man for stopping and elevating my cool rating from -1 to, maybe, 0.
Did something comparable occur on my earlier journey to DC in 1993? No as a result of my dad’s meme recreation was trash because of memes not present but.
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The remainder of the day was quintessential DC vacationer stuff. So go forward and play some montage background music in your head whilst you look at pics. (Star Spangled Banner is a timeless alternative however I’ll additionally settle for My Nation ‘Tis of Thee.)
Cliche proper? We even did the “Fake to lean on the Washington Monument” pic.
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Did I respect DC extra as a dad than as a 10-year-old child? In methods phrases can’t describe. I stood in entrance of the Lincoln Memorial realizing that is the spot the place Martin Luther King Jr gave the I Have a Dream Speech. I imagined throngs of individuals gathered. A lot occurred RIGHT HERE.
We went to Ford’s Theater, the place Abraham Lincoln was shot. I imagined the what ifs. What if John Wilkes Sales space DIDN’T try this? What if the gun jammed?
Life is tenuous. The entire moments that occurred, each good and dangerous, celebratory and tragic, have led to the current and made our actuality what it’s. Historic spots, monuments, museums… they’re documentation of a very powerful moments that received us right here. They’re the inspiration for residing a greater life and making our youngsters’s realities extra wealthy and full.
I checked out my youngsters. Did they understand the enormity? Did they respect the historical past? My daughter stated one thing so profound. (That is a precise quote. I wrote it down in my telephone so I may get it good.) She stated, “You ought to be grateful to have youngsters like us. We’ve been up since 3am doing all of your crap.”
I believe she will get it.
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In 2.5 days we walked over 60,000 steps. After we’d cease I’d say “I must relaxation the ole gams.” (Gams being a humorous phrase for legs.) This turned our operating joke. As a result of what’s a household journey if not a sequence of inside jokes you may look again on later in life. So the theme of this journey was not historic reflection as meant, however moderately “resting the gams.” After we walked by way of White Home safety for the Easter Egg Roll on our final day in DC, my son requested the Secret Service Officer, “Is that this the gam resting station?”
In 1993, we toured the within of the White Home. We couldn’t try this on this journey. Greatest I may supply was the South Garden. What a tremendous expertise to stroll the grounds. We noticed the President, First Woman, the Easter Bunny, and Jimmy Fallon.
My son shouted for the dancing duck to “hit the griddy!” What would the 1993 equal of this be? “Do the Macarena!”? Youngsters, hitting the griddy is only a fashionable model of the Macarena. Ruined the griddy. You’re welcome.
@thedad An try was made @thejoelwillis #hitthegriddy
♬ authentic sound – The Dad
A man within the VIP part noticed a buddy close to us and came visiting to shake his hand. My son stated, “Hey dude can I get a type of too?” (a handshake). The man shook my son’s hand and stated, “Good to fulfill you. I’m Hunter.”
True parenting media model aficionados will respect this: I received to hold with Micaela Birmingham and Alison Bucalo from Scary Mommy!
My youngsters’ favourite half? A pop up live performance from Sofia Carson. In true dad trend, I didn’t know who she was (regardless of her 16.3M IG followers) till my daughter advised me she was Evie in The Descendents. Ah sure! Chillin Like a Villain! Historic.
@thedad We had been on the White Home yesterday for the Easter Egg Roll. @Joel Willis’s son received a selfie with @SofiaCarson and his response (and the pic) are killing me ?
♬ authentic sound – The Dad
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I’ve exaggerated for comedic impact. My youngsters appreciated the historical past greater than most would. Definitely greater than I did in 1993.
As mother and father, we have to remind ourselves: the purpose of historic sightseeing together with your youngsters is to not induce some epiphany about their distinctive place in historical past and the world; the purpose is to create recollections together with your youngsters that they’ll look again on and respect once they’re older.
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After I turned a dad, when my youngsters had been little, we invited my dad to go together with us to the Wright Patterson Air Drive Museum. I hadn’t been since I used to be a child. Ya know what? By grownup eyes it actually was fascinating. My dad received the problem in spite of everything.
My youngsters humored us and had been as as youngsters can get. However they received to spend time with their grandpa. That’s what it was about all alongside.
He handed away a couple of weeks later and that was the final time we noticed him. I’ll be ceaselessly grateful that we took that final journey to the museum.
Historical past isn’t solely boring museums, statues, and prolonged esoteric plaques. Historical past is private: our household, recollections, shared experiences, and inside jokes. Some fascinating, some boring. Some heroic, some tragic. That’s the stuff life is fabricated from.
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Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop second straight to Cubs; 5-3 in D.C.; DJ Herz runs into trouble in 5th…
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DJ IN D.C.:
In his previous four starts before facing the Chicago Cubs on Saturday afternoon in D.C., DJ Herz gave up 6 of the 15 hits, 7 of his 11 walks, and 4 of the 7 runs he allowed in the outings in the first innings of those appearances.
“The first inning over the last couple of starts has been rough,” manager Davey Martinez told reporters, as quoted on MLB.com, after Herz tossed a clean first inning (minus the HBP and the 2 walks which loaded the bases before he got out of the 27-pitch bottom of the inning in Atlanta) against the Braves last week in Truist Park, “… but he seems to settle down a little bit and he starts throwing strikes and utilizing his pitches.
“It’s about getting the ball close to the zone because his stuff is really good. If he gets too erratic, that’s when he gets in trouble. When he keeps the ball in the zone, he gets a lot of swings and misses.”
“[The first inning] has been like that three times in a row,” Herz said. “That’ll stop eventually, but I just keep grinding through [my starts] and they will eventually change.”
Asked how he’s able to put the rough firsts behind him and settle in, Herz told reporters, “It all happens just by attacking the zone. When I’m attacking the zone and [I get] settled in, it all plays.
“I’m not chasing anything, I’m just letting it happen.”
Martinez said his starter would also have to deal with the emotions of going against his one-time team, since he was facing the Cubs who drafted him in the 8th Round in 2019 and traded him (along with infielder Kevin Made) to the Nationals (for Jeimer Candelario in 2023).
“He’s going to be a little wild, I mean, not pitch-wise, yeah, it’s his old team, right?” Martinez said. “But we got to be able to control his heartbeat, but we expect him to go out there and compete, and I know he’ll do that.”
“He might be a little anxious. We got to get him through that first inning. We’ve said that his last few outings. He comes out and he’s just geeked up, ready to go. We’ve to get him to slow his heartbeat down and get him through that first inning and settle in and he should be fine.”
Herz, who said in Spring Training he wanted to show Chicago they made a mistake when they dealt him, got through a quick, clean first, worked around a walk (and balk) in the top of the second, and struck out 2 of 3 batters in the third for three scoreless (and hitless) on 46 pitches.
DJ Herz in spring training: “I’m going to show them up, or I’m going to come out and I’m just going to put everything on the line and be a beast and do everything I can to make the Cubs know that they messed up a little bit.” https://t.co/e33XFbwvO4 https://t.co/xUBcKBUj82
— Bobby Blanco (@Bobby_Blanco) August 31, 2024
Herz retired the Cubs in order in a 13-pitch fourth which left him at 59 pitches overall, but it went all pear-shaped for the southpaw in the fifth. He took the mound with a 2-0 lead, but a single by Isaac Paredes for the first hit by the visiting team, a walk to Michael Busch, and a line drive single by Nico Hoerner loaded the bases with no one out before a sac fly by Pete Crow-Armstrong cut the lead in half, 2-1, an RBI single by Christian Bethancourt tied things up at 2-2, and a ground ball to the mound brought in the third run, 3-2 Cubbies.
That was it for Herz, who threw 87 pitches total in the outing, walking two, striking out five, and giving up three hits and four earned runs, the fourth scoring after he was in the home dugout, 4-2, in what ended up a 5-3 win for the Cubs.
“We talked about the first inning, right?” Martinez said after the second straight loss in the series. “The first inning he came out and he threw the ball really well, and then he had one inning where he just got the ball up a little bit. So, we tried to get him out of the inning, he couldn’t get it. He threw one changeup right down the middle, it cost him a couple runs.
“But overall I thought he threw the ball [well]. Pitch count got up there, but he was attacking the zone.
“Sometimes he was trying to make that finish pitch, he couldn’t get it over, and he got into deep counts.”
“I think there were times when I got 0-2 or 1-2 and I was trying to maybe [get hitters to] chase,” Herz said, as quoted by MASN’s Mark Zuckerman, “… instead of just staying in the zone and not nibbling,” the lefty said. “I think that came back to get me, especially in that last inning.”
LEADOFF SPOT:
Davey Martinez gave CJ Abrams a night off against Yankees’ lefty Carlos Rodón on Wednesday night, with the shortstop scuffling at the plate and mired in a long-ish slump this month (.184/.250/.322 line in August).
“We’ve got a day off tomorrow. I wanted to give him two days off,” he explained. “I told him there’s a good chance he might get into the game today, so be ready. But I wanted to get him off his feet. He’s played a lot. He went through the All-Star break, didn’t really have any time off. So I’m trying to give him a day off here and there.”
Martinez moved rookie Dylan Crews up to the top of the Nationals’ lineup in the series finale with New York.
“I would really like him to hit up at the top because he does take pitches, he understands the strike zone, but yet he’s aggressive,” Martinez said, as quoted by MLB.com’s Jessica Camerato. “I know that he can walk, so I would love to hit him up at the top.”
Martinez told reporters he would keep his newest outfielder up top against a lefty in the series opener with Chicago (NL) and he did, even with Abrams back in there in the first of three with the Cubs.
Abrams hit seventh in the lineup.
“Just want to give him a little breather,” the skipper said of dropping Abrams to the 7-hole. “I want him to relax a little bit, just kind of start working better at-bats. As you know, he’s chasing a lot. I just want him to kind of slow down a little bit. So I talked to him before I sent the lineup out. He’s good with it. And like I said, when you start getting on base and taking your walks, I want you to get back up there. But we need to slow you down a little bit. He’s just swinging a lot.”
Seeing Abrams revert to some bad habits at the plate led the manager to make the decision to shake things up a bit.
“He’s got to go back to using the middle of the field and swinging at strikes,” he said. “I know he likes swinging at the first pitch, as we always see. I told him, I said, “I’m not going to tell you not to, especially if you get a fastball, but it’s got to be in the zone. And that’s where we need to be.’ But like I said, he worked his way to be a leadoff hitter. He’s going to do it again. I just want to just ease his mind a little bit and just go out there and have fun and get some decent pitches to hit. If not, walk.”
As Martinez noted, Abrams has struggled throughout the second half, with a rough .178/.243/.282 line over 35 games and his 148 plate appearances since the All-Star Break, after a .268/.343/.489 first half (in 89 games and 398 PAs).
“He’s been struggling pretty much since the All-Star break and we’re trying to get him going,” Martinez said.
”I think the biggest thing we need to do with him is understand that he needs to slow his feet down. He’s really going to get the baseball. We need him to get back, get ready early, and slow his feet down a little bit.”
“It’s been going on for a while, been wanting to do it for a while, and I thought, ‘Let’s do it now and see if we can get him back so he can finish the season off strong.’ A lot of teams move their guys all over the place.”
The hope, Martinez said, is Abrams will see the way opposing pitchers attach his teammates (especially his fellow lefties in the lineup) and be better prepared for his own at-bats.
“I want him to focus on watching some of the other guys’ at-bats, and see what the pitcher is doing for a little bit until he goes up there.
“We talked about that today —- he gets to see a couple lefties like [James] Wood and [José] Tena hit in front of him and see what the pitcher is trying to do to them.
“Hopefully he’ll understand what the guy is trying to do and see what the balls are doing.”
If the move sparks something in Abrams, and he finishes strong he’ll end the year on a positive note.
“I think it will help him. I think, one, like I said, the pressure of being that first guy to get on base and try to get something going for us, it’s definitely a lot of pressure,” Martinez acknowledged.
“Right now, I think the best thing for him is just to kind of move him down, not feel the added pressure. He can hit, as we all know, but just getting him back in the zone, and getting him to take some pitches maybe will definitely help him out, and like I said, once he gets going again we’ll get him back up there.”
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Man injured after shooting in Dupont Circle
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said a man was shot in Northwest D.C. late Friday night.
Police said that at about 11:30 p.m., they responded to a shooting at the corner of 18th and Church Street.
When officers arrived at the scene, they saw that DC Fire and EMS were treating a victim who was bleeding from the head.
Person injured after car overturns in Fairfax County
According to MPD, witnesses said they heard “loud pops and yelling”. Soon after, a vehicle was seen leaving the area.
DC Fire and EMS transported the man to the hospital for treatment.
Police said that during the incident, bullets destroyed the window of a church.
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Inside look at Washington Capitals | NHL.com
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The Capitals also traded for forward Andrew Mangiapane (Calgary Flames), defenseman Jakob Chychrun (Ottawa Senators) and goalie Logan Thompson (Vegas Golden Knights), and added defenseman Matt Roy (six years, $34.5 million; AAV of $5.75 million AAV) and forwards Brandon Duhaime (two years, $3.7 million; AAV of $1.85 million) and Taylor Raddysh (one year, $1 million) in free agency.
Where everyone fits will be determined during training camp along with whether forward T.J. Oshie will play after being hampered by a back injury the past two seasons.
Regardless, Washington expects to have a deeper lineup than last season, when it finished 40-31-11 and surprised many by qualifying for the Stanley Cup Playoffs as the second wild card from the Eastern Conference. If the Capitals exceeded expectations in Carbery’s first season, he warned it will be more difficult this season.
“Whatever the outside world has us pegged at percentage-wise of making the playoffs — and I’m not shy to say we don’t have many believers again this year — it’s important that we know two things,” Carbery said. “One is we are not going to catch anybody off guard. Teams are going to know, ‘OK, this is a team that caught some teams maybe off guard last year. They were a playoff team. We need to be ready to go tonight.’
“And two is we need to get better in a bunch of areas, especially offensively.”
Washington was 28th in the NHL in scoring 2.63 goals per game last season. Acquiring Dubois, Mangiapane and Chychrun could help. Mangiapane scored 14 goals in 75 games last season, but the 28-year-old had an NHL career-high 35 goals in 82 games with the Flames in 2021-22.
Chychrun will add another element to the Capitals defensemen, who were 31st in the NHL with 20 goals scored at the position last season, ahead of only the Chicago Blackhawks (19). The 26-year-old had 14 goals in 82 games with the Senators last season.
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