{"id":12374,"date":"2012-04-11T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=12374"},"modified":"2012-04-11T19:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:09:53","slug":"mother-hen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=12374","title":{"rendered":"Mother Hen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When playing &#8220;house&#8221; with Avery or her friends, Zoe\u00c2\u00a0loves to play the mommy &#8211; and I think of her as a bit of a Mother Hen in real life, too. She&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0often looking after Avery and sometimes\u00c2\u00a0providing us with related\u00c2\u00a0tips and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=11815\">scoldings<\/a>. Tonight, for example, Zoe became concerned when I went to wake Avery from a very late nap. &#8220;Let her\u00c2\u00a0sleep, there&#8217;s no reason to wake her!&#8221; she told me as she eyed her peaceful-looking sister in bed. I explained that while\u00c2\u00a0I hated to wake Avery, too, she needed to eat dinner before going to bed &#8211; but Zoe remained skeptical. And when Avery emerged from her bed groggy and unhappy a few minutes later, Zoe told me in her little-mommy tone, &#8220;Let her <em>be<\/em>. She just needs a few minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When playing &#8220;house&#8221; with Avery or her friends, Zoe\u00c2\u00a0loves to play the mommy &#8211; and I think of her as a bit of a Mother Hen in real life, too. She&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0often looking after Avery and sometimes\u00c2\u00a0providing us with related\u00c2\u00a0tips and\/or scoldings. Tonight, for example, Zoe became concerned when I went to wake Avery from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69-two-kids-april-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374","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=12374"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12383,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374\/revisions\/12383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}