{"id":13299,"date":"2012-06-23T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=13299"},"modified":"2012-06-23T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T23:22:20","slug":"a-visit-from-pop-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=13299","title":{"rendered":"A visit from Pop Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop Pop flew into town last night, to surprise Dan and Jenny at their baby shower today. The girls didn&#8217;t get to see him until this morning, and I woke up to voices from Avery&#8217;s room, where Zoe was excitedly filling in Pop Pop on things in her life. &#8220;My teacher is Erica,&#8221; &#8220;I love my Erica,&#8221; and &#8220;My favorite character on Star Wars is Darth Vader&#8221; were among the things I heard. And then Avery chimed in, telling Pop Pop he had\u00c2\u00a0to look at\u00c2\u00a0Zoe&#8217;s fish (a betta that we got a few weeks ago) and then showing him her new &#8220;Giggle Baby&#8221; (a birthday gift from Grandma and Grandpa). The entire interaction made me smile: The girls may\u00c2\u00a0not see their grandparents as much as would be ideal, but they&#8217;re still so comfortable with them. It&#8217;s clear that geographic distance doesn&#8217;t equate to <em>emotional<\/em> distance!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop Pop flew into town last night, to surprise Dan and Jenny at their baby shower today. The girls didn&#8217;t get to see him until this morning, and I woke up to voices from Avery&#8217;s room, where Zoe was excitedly filling in Pop Pop on things in her life. &#8220;My teacher is Erica,&#8221; &#8220;I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-71-two-kids-june-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299","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=13299"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13307,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299\/revisions\/13307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}