{"id":2535,"date":"2009-05-18T13:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T20:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2009-05-18T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T20:40:48","slug":"an-empty-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2535","title":{"rendered":"An empty room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned below, Zoe is officially moved into her new room. Since Dan, Jenny and Kim babysat on Sat. evening, last night was the first time Q and I put Zoe to bed in her new space and I admit to becoming a bit emotional. I was fine until I headed to bed myself and peeked through our bedroom window to the nursery &#8211; something I&#8217;ve done every night for more than two years &#8211; and found myself looking at an empty room. I couldn&#8217;t help but think of a much younger, smaller Zoe sleeping in her crib, and I was hit with the realization that I would never again see this happy, peaceful sight. (I know another baby will soon occupy the nursery, but it won&#8217;t be <em>Zoe<\/em>.) I&#8217;m not usually so sentimental, and it would be easy to blame the hormones &#8211; but I suspect the reality is that<em> all <\/em> parents feel an occasional pang of sadness as their children transition from babies to little girls and boys. As much as I love 2-year-old Zoe, I know she will never be a baby again &#8211; and I had to shed a few tears over that. <\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned below, Zoe is officially moved into her new room. Since Dan, Jenny and Kim babysat on Sat. evening, last night was the first time Q and I put Zoe to bed in her new space and I admit to becoming a bit emotional. I was fine until I headed to bed myself and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-33two-years-5-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}