{"id":10976,"date":"2011-11-30T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=10976"},"modified":"2011-11-30T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:51:58","slug":"i-close-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=10976","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I close eyes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avery&#8217;s bedtime ritual has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=10333\">changed a bit<\/a> lately: Most nights, Q will tuck her in, read her some books, and then send me in to issue a final good-night. I always find her quietly lying there, patiently waiting for me with a book in hand &#8211; and I&#8217;ll quickly read to her (often making up words if I can&#8217;t remember the story) in the dark. <\/p>\n<p>The other night as I finished the last page of our book, Avery asked, &#8220;Mama bye-bye now?&#8221; I told her that yes, I was going to leave, and she asked, &#8220;Zoe sleeping?&#8221; When I assured her that Zoe was in bed and wished her a good night, she responded, &#8220;I close eyes.&#8221; And she did&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If only getting our kids to sleep had always been this easy!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avery&#8217;s bedtime ritual has changed a bit lately: Most nights, Q will tuck her in, read her some books, and then send me in to issue a final good-night. I always find her quietly lying there, patiently waiting for me with a book in hand &#8211; and I&#8217;ll quickly read to her (often making up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-64-two-kids-november-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976","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=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10984,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions\/10984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}