{"id":24908,"date":"2017-04-30T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=24908"},"modified":"2017-05-01T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:16:31","slug":"ill-take-the-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=24908","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;ll take the cash!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big event in the life of our family happened recently, when we left the girls home in the evening for the first time. We stayed close and just had a quick dinner in the neighborhood, but it felt kinda monumental. And I&#8217;m happy to report that all went well: Avery got a bit sad at bedtime\u00c2\u00a0and kept asking Zoe to call me, but Zoe\u00c2\u00a0made her feel better by pulling up the restaurant on a map on her tablet and showing her\u00c2\u00a0how close we were.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, we gave Zoe some money &#8211; like we would any other babysitter &#8211; and she looked surprised. &#8220;I don&#8217;t need that,&#8221; she said, only to have her sister cry out,\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Ooh, I&#8217;ll take the cash!&#8221; (And if that story doesn&#8217;t perfectly encapsulate their personalities, I don&#8217;t know what does.)<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big event in the life of our family happened recently, when we left the girls home in the evening for the first time. We stayed close and just had a quick dinner in the neighborhood, but it felt kinda monumental. And I&#8217;m happy to report that all went well: Avery got a bit sad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-96-two-kids-apr-june-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24908","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=24908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24946,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24908\/revisions\/24946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}