{"id":6754,"date":"2010-11-23T20:34:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2010-11-23T20:34:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:34:36","slug":"my-little-seedling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=6754","title":{"rendered":"My little seedling"},"content":{"rendered":"

So if Zoe didn’t think her mom was crazy before, she surely does now. As I was reading her a book at bedtime tonight, I – much to her confusion – burst into tears. The reason for my outburst? The words in the book she (rather appropriately) chose, Sunrise, Sunset:<\/p>\n

Is this the little girl I carried?
\nIs the little boy at play?
\nI don’t remember growing older.
\nWhen did they?<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Sunrise, sunset,
\nSwiftly flow the days;
\nSeedlings turn overnight to sunflow’rs,
\nBlossoming even as we gaze.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I tried to explain to her that I wasn’t sad, exactly – just emotional that my little seedling was growing into a sunflower. I explained to her that I was thinking of four years ago tonight – how seeing her for the first time was the most amazing moment of my life. I know she didn’t really understand; she just looked at me with a blank expression and said, “I won’t choose that book again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So if Zoe didn’t think her mom was crazy before, she surely does now. As I was reading her a book at bedtime tonight, I – much to her confusion – burst into tears. The reason for my outburst? The words in the book she (rather appropriately) chose, Sunrise, Sunset: Is this the little girl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-two-kids-november-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","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=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6762,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/6762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}