{"id":1538,"date":"2008-05-11T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2008-05-10T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T16:20:56","slug":"thoughts-from-a-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from a mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many times a day as I hear &#8220;mama&#8221; and &#8220;mommy,&#8221; I don&#8217;t think it has completely sunk in that I&#8217;m a mom. Great mothers in history (including those from my own history) are typically strong, wise, nurturing, selfless &#8211; and those aren&#8217;t the first words I&#8217;d use to describe me. (Okay, so I&#8217;m a *smart* person, but I&#8217;ve never been wise about kid stuff. When the picture below was taken, I was totally clueless.) Most of the time I just feel like Michelle, with a kid &#8211; and maybe that&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s going to be for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>Despite how I may feel, I *am* a mom &#8211; and I need to thank Zoe (and Q, of course) for giving me that title and making my life much happier\/crazier\/more unpredictable than ever before. And I need to wish all other moms (including mine and Q&#8217;s) a happy day. I&#8217;m not sure my kid-cluelessness would have ever decreased without you!!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1537\" alt=mom.JPG src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mom.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many times a day as I hear &#8220;mama&#8221; and &#8220;mommy,&#8221; I don&#8217;t think it has completely sunk in that I&#8217;m a mom. Great mothers in history (including those from my own history) are typically strong, wise, nurturing, selfless &#8211; and those aren&#8217;t the first words I&#8217;d use to describe me. (Okay, so I&#8217;m 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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20seventeen-to-eighteen-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","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=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}