{"id":25315,"date":"2017-07-11T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=25315"},"modified":"2017-07-06T12:31:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T20:31:50","slug":"i-always-think-of-what-you-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=25315","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I always think of what you said&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each spring, during a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23856\">prayer service<\/a> that the first-graders lead for the school, the first-grade parents get to formally present a prayer book cover and say a few words to their kids. One of the things I told Avery during hers was that I hope she never loses her ability to appreciate, and find beauty, in the little things in life.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward to a few weeks ago, when we were at Great America. Avery found a leaf on the ground, as she does, and\u00c2\u00a0promptly put it in my purse to save. &#8220;I always think of what you said at tefilah when I do that,&#8221; she told me with a smile. I was touched that what I said obviously stuck with her, and I told her I couldn&#8217;t believe she remembered! &#8220;It was only a year ago, Mommy,&#8221; she responded with a little shake of her head.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each spring, during a prayer service that the first-graders lead for the school, the first-grade parents get to formally present a prayer book cover and say a few words to their kids. One of the things I told Avery during hers was that I hope she never loses her ability to appreciate, and find beauty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-97-two-kids-july-sept-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315","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=25315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25316,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315\/revisions\/25316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}