{"id":25945,"date":"2017-12-17T10:57:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T18:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=25945"},"modified":"2017-12-17T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T18:57:49","slug":"an-additional-thought-on-zoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=25945","title":{"rendered":"An additional thought on Zoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read this (terrific) <em>New York Times<\/em> piece about a mom&#8217;s thoughts on her daughter going to be college, and this passage jumped out at me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She is a competent young woman. She makes sound decisions, chooses decent friendships and navigates the world with an inner knowingness that has always belied her age.<\/p>\n<p>This is no humble brag. Much of who she is, quite honestly, has little to do with me. She came into the world [this way]&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s just like Zoe,&#8221; I thought when reading it &#8211; and it&#8217;s true. I&#8217;ve long thought of Zoe as an old soul, and I&#8217;ve also long thought that it has nothing to do with me. But regardless of <em>how<\/em> she turned out this way, I&#8217;m still proud.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read this (terrific) New York Times piece about a mom&#8217;s thoughts on her daughter going to be college, and this passage jumped out at me: She is a competent young woman. She makes sound decisions, chooses decent friendships and navigates the world with an inner knowingness that has always belied her age. This [&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-25945","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\/25945","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=25945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25947,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25945\/revisions\/25947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}