{"id":362577,"date":"2026-01-04T22:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=362577"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:09:21","slug":"first-year-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=362577","title":{"rendered":"First Year Down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/football-themed-birthday1.jpg\" alt=\"football themed birthday\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/football-themed-birthday2.jpg\" alt=\"football themed birthday\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/football-themed-birthday3.jpg\" alt=\"football themed birthday\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/football-themed-birthday4.jpg\" alt=\"football themed birthday\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>It was Raiden&#8217;s 1st year down \ud83c\udfc8 \ud83e\udd73<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/football-themed-birthday5.jpg\" alt=\"football themed birthday\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>Chel&#8217;s kid was selling all his Funko Pops to fund this summer program at UCSD where you get to stay in the dorms and earn college credits. He&#8217;s just a freshman in high school! When I was his age (LOL \ud83d\udc75\ud83c\udffb), I was more interested in boys and makeup than the future \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/football-themed-birthday6.jpg\" alt=\"football themed birthday\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>Since the party was football-themed, wearing jerseys was encouraged. SD doesn&#8217;t have a football team anymore, and the only jersey I own is an old Merriman jersey (bought before the Chargers left SD and before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=4450962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merriman famously choked Tila Tequila<\/a>, but unfortunately not before he got that stupid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickiswift.com\/852367\/sports-stars-who-have-gotten-some-bizarre-tattoos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;lights out&#8217; tattoo<\/a>). Since Merriman&#8217;s so controversial, Pammie let me borrow her LT jersey, but who knew my mom would show up in the most offensive jersey ever &#8211; an MLB LA Dodgers jersey! Actually, the most offensive getup there was worn by a relative on my cousin&#8217;s husband&#8217;s side &#8211; He was wearing a fucking <em>Raiders<\/em> jersey and a <em>Dodgers<\/em> hat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/taco-bar.gif\" alt=\"taco bar\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I was too busy indulging in the taco bar to get too riled up \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Raiden&#8217;s 1st year down \ud83c\udfc8 \ud83e\udd73 Chel&#8217;s kid was selling all his Funko Pops to fund this summer program at UCSD where you get to stay in the dorms and earn college credits. He&#8217;s just a freshman in high school! When I was his age (LOL \ud83d\udc75\ud83c\udffb), I was more interested in boys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362577"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363581,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362577\/revisions\/363581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}