{"id":2995,"date":"2009-10-21T14:38:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T21:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2009-10-21T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T21:38:01","slug":"the-power-of-a-headband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2995","title":{"rendered":"The power of a headband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that her (increasingly long) hair is always getting in her eyes, Zoe is reluctant to wear anything in it. (Believe me, we&#8217;ve tried.) Last night, though, she agreed to put on a little strawberry headband &#8211; and the second she placed it on her hair, she was transformed from a toddler to a little girl. I had to blink back tears as I told her how pretty she was, and Zoe, who obviously liked the way she looked, too, danced around as she said, &#8220;Look &#8211; Mommy&#8217;s crying. Mommy&#8217;s sad.&#8221; I shook my head and explained to her that I wasn&#8217;t sad &#8211; I was actually happy and feeling proud of my &#8220;big girl.&#8221; She probably thought I was crazy, but I think any parent would get where I was coming from. There are moments when it hits you just how much your child has grown and just how much you love him\/her &#8211; and this was one such moment for me.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that her (increasingly long) hair is always getting in her eyes, Zoe is reluctant to wear anything in it. (Believe me, we&#8217;ve tried.) Last night, though, she agreed to put on a little strawberry headband &#8211; and the second she placed it on her hair, she was transformed from a toddler to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39two-kids-october-09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","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=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}