{"id":2018,"date":"2008-10-15T14:05:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2008-10-15T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T21:05:12","slug":"thoughts-on-a-sleepless-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on a sleepless morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two mornings we&#8217;ve gotten a 4:45 AM wake-up call in the form of Zoe&#8217;s cries. I&#8217;m not sure what was bothering her (teeth? tummy? other?); I just know that she didn&#8217;t want to be in her crib, and she didn&#8217;t want to be alone. Yesterday the two of us were able to get a bit of sleep by lying together on the floor, but this morning was trickier. My rocking\/bouncing\/singing efforts weren&#8217;t initially successful, and I felt myself become increasingly stressed as her big eyes stayed wide open. (She&#8217;s never going to fall asleep! She&#8217;ll be so crabby today! I&#8217;m going have a terrible day because I&#8217;m so tired!) Eventually, though, Zoe&#8217;s eyes <em>did <\/em>close, and something occurred to me as I sat rocking in the dark: getting to hold your daughter, while listening to the (sweet) sounds of her breathing, is really not the worst thing in the world. I might be tired today, but at least I got some quiet, sweet moments out of it.<\/p>\n<p>(But with that said, I do hope she sleeps well tonight!)<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two mornings we&#8217;ve gotten a 4:45 AM wake-up call in the form of Zoe&#8217;s cries. I&#8217;m not sure what was bothering her (teeth? tummy? other?); I just know that she didn&#8217;t want to be in her crib, and she didn&#8217;t want to be alone. Yesterday the two of us were able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26twenty-two-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","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=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}