{"id":10185,"date":"2011-10-13T11:48:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2011-10-13T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:48:20","slug":"sunflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=10185","title":{"rendered":"Sunflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The changes in Avery has been dramatic lately, and there are moments when I catch a glimpse of her big curly hair and bright, happy face and wonder, &#8220;Who <em>is<\/em> this girl?&#8221; She is growing at such a fast pace, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=6754\">that line<\/a> from Sunrise, Sunset has never been more appropriate: &#8220;Seedlings turn overnight to sunflow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122rs, blossoming even as we gaze.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Along the same lines, when I picked up Zoe from school the other day, I almost didn&#8217;t recognize the girl who burst through the door and galloped towards me with a huge smile. (&#8220;Oh, there&#8217;s a tall girl with long brown hair and a mint shirt,&#8221; I literally thought before, a split-second later, realizing it was <em>my<\/em> tall girl.) We went out for ice-cream later that day and, quite different from the days in which she was in a stroller, we held each other&#8217;s hands and chatted like girlfriends as we walked down the street. <\/p>\n<p>Seedlings may be amazing, but there&#8217;s something pretty special about &#8220;sunflow&#8217;rs,&#8221; too.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Tall-Avery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Tall-Avery.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tall Avery\" width=\"301\" height=\"459\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Tall-Avery.jpg 301w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Tall-Avery-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The changes in Avery has been dramatic lately, and there are moments when I catch a glimpse of her big curly hair and bright, happy face and wonder, &#8220;Who is this girl?&#8221; She is growing at such a fast pace, and that line from Sunrise, Sunset has never been more appropriate: &#8220;Seedlings turn overnight to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-63-two-kids-october-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10453,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions\/10453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}