{"id":23533,"date":"2016-02-16T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23533"},"modified":"2016-02-16T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:03:21","slug":"a-new-friend-for-zoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23533","title":{"rendered":"A new friend for Zoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Q and Avery surprised Zoe with a belated Valentine&#8217;s Day present &#8211; a large stuffed bear that Zoe has since named Snowball. Her reaction to the present took me by surprise: She grabbed and hugged the bear close to her\u00c2\u00a0and immediately started reading a book\u00c2\u00a0to him. Later I heard her tell him, &#8220;Tomorrow I&#8217;ll teach you how to read and introduce you to all my other stuffies,&#8221; and this morning I watched as she did indeed introduce him to her stuffed animals in the playroom.<\/p>\n<p>Just when I think she&#8217;s getting so old, she reminds me that she&#8217;s still very much a little girl!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Zoe-and-Snowball2.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe and Snowball2\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Zoe-and-Snowball2.jpg 403w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Zoe-and-Snowball2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23536\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Zoe-reading-to-Snowball.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe reading to Snowball\" width=\"302\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Zoe-reading-to-Snowball.jpg 302w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Zoe-reading-to-Snowball-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Q and Avery surprised Zoe with a belated Valentine&#8217;s Day present &#8211; a large stuffed bear that Zoe has since named Snowball. Her reaction to the present took me by surprise: She grabbed and hugged the bear close to her\u00c2\u00a0and immediately started reading a book\u00c2\u00a0to him. Later I heard her tell him, &#8220;Tomorrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-91-two-kids-jan-apr16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533","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=23533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23538,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533\/revisions\/23538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}