{"id":488,"date":"2007-03-14T18:07:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T01:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=488"},"modified":"2007-03-14T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T01:11:55","slug":"built-in-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Built-in vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the type of person who always likes having something to look forward to &#8211; a\u00c2\u00a0weekend get-away, a\u00c2\u00a0shopping spree with a girlfriend, a tropical vacation &#8211; and when I&#8217;m really excited about something, I get a happy, butterfly-like feeling my stomach that&#8217;s difficult to shake.\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve had this feeling for the past few days now and I wasn&#8217;t sure why &#8211; until it hit me today that what I feel excited about is Zoe.\u00c2\u00a0She is at\u00c2\u00a0such an amazingly fun and cute age &#8211; she&#8217;s always smiling or giggling, or eating her hand (like below); and every day she does something that makes us laugh &#8211; that I can&#8217;t help but look forward to spending time\u00c2\u00a0with her. And I know that even when I return to a fuller schedule at work (which happens in two weeks), we&#8217;ll have\u00c2\u00a0our\u00c2\u00a0evenings and weekends with her. She&#8217;s like a built-in vacation (not from work,\u00c2\u00a0of course\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; but certainly from unhappiness or boredom), and I feel so lucky to have her!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image489\" alt=\"zoe-eating-hand-in-carseat.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/zoe-eating-hand-in-carseat.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the type of person who always likes having something to look forward to &#8211; a\u00c2\u00a0weekend get-away, a\u00c2\u00a0shopping spree with a girlfriend, a tropical vacation &#8211; and when I&#8217;m really excited about something, I get a happy, butterfly-like feeling my stomach that&#8217;s difficult to shake.\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve had this feeling for the past few days now 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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-three-to-four-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}