{"id":13637,"date":"2012-07-20T13:38:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T21:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=13637"},"modified":"2012-07-20T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T21:38:53","slug":"three-girls-and-a-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=13637","title":{"rendered":"Three girls and a zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00c2\u00a0had a\u00c2\u00a0rough moment here this morning. I had\u00c2\u00a0been planning all week to keep both girls home with me today, but Zoe became upset with that plan &#8211; saying she wanted to go to camp instead of having our &#8220;girl bonding&#8221; day &#8211; at the last minute this morning. Normally\u00c2\u00a0this wouldn&#8217;t\u00c2\u00a0be that big\u00c2\u00a0a big deal, except I can&#8217;t get out of my mind the fact there are\u00c2\u00a0only\u00c2\u00a0six more\u00c2\u00a0weeks before Zoe starts kindergarten and we&#8217;ll have to say good-bye (at least for the school year) to our Friday mornings together. I really didn&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> to take her to camp today, but I also didn&#8217;t want to force her to have fun with me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, it worked out. I kept my cool (unlike the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=12718\">last time<\/a> we had a similar situation), she dried her eyes and we headed out for our girls&#8217; morning without incident. And\u00c2\u00a0as we were strolling through the zoo, she looked up at me at one point and said, &#8220;This is <em>way<\/em> better than camp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zoe-at-zoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13644\" title=\"Zoe at zoo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zoe-at-zoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zoe-at-zoo.jpg 408w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zoe-at-zoo-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Avery-at-zoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13645\" title=\"Avery at zoo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Avery-at-zoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Avery-at-zoo.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Avery-at-zoo-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00c2\u00a0had a\u00c2\u00a0rough moment here this morning. I had\u00c2\u00a0been planning all week to keep both girls home with me today, but Zoe became upset with that plan &#8211; saying she wanted to go to camp instead of having our &#8220;girl bonding&#8221; day &#8211; at the last minute this morning. Normally\u00c2\u00a0this wouldn&#8217;t\u00c2\u00a0be that big\u00c2\u00a0a big deal, except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-73-two-kids-july-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637","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=13637"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13647,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637\/revisions\/13647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}