{"id":25682,"date":"2017-10-15T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=25682"},"modified":"2017-10-14T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T19:55:12","slug":"role-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=25682","title":{"rendered":"Role reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t often do &#8220;dramatic play&#8221; with the girls &#8211; it&#8217;s not really my thing &#8211; but the other night I felt inspired and wound up playing &#8220;baby&#8221; with the girls. For a good 20 minutes I played the role of a toddler who was comforted and held and put to bed by Mommy (Avery) and Auntie (Zoe). It was so sweet to watch Avery&#8217;s little face pressed up against mine as she softly sang <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveinformation.org\/music\/sing-along-songs\/light-a-candle-for-peace\/\">&#8220;Light a candle for peace&#8221;<\/a> and &#8220;99 bottles of beer&#8221; (the latter which I sometimes sang to the girls when they were little) and helped get me to sleep. And I must have played my role well, too, because I heard her tell Q, &#8220;We&#8217;re playing baby with mom, and she&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> realistic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t often do &#8220;dramatic play&#8221; with the girls &#8211; it&#8217;s not really my thing &#8211; but the other night I felt inspired and wound up playing &#8220;baby&#8221; with the girls. For a good 20 minutes I played the role of a toddler who was comforted and held and put to bed by Mommy (Avery) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-98-two-kids-oct-dec17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682","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=25682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25683,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682\/revisions\/25683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}