{"id":9455,"date":"2011-07-20T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=9455"},"modified":"2011-07-19T18:54:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T02:54:28","slug":"bounce-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=9455","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bounce me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night, about a half-hour after we had put her to bed, Zoe called me into her room and simply said, &#8220;Bounce me.&#8221; I still occasionally rock or bounce Zoe when she&#8217;s sick or upset, but this was the first time in ages that she has asked for it on her own &#8211; and I was happy to fulfill her request. And so, I retrieved the large exercise ball from Avery&#8217;s room and began bouncing and singing to Zoe. And just as I closed my eyes and imagined I was holding her as a baby, Zoe suddenly sat up and said, &#8220;Mommy, sorry to stop you, but you&#8217;re supposed to sing the ABCs and <em>then<\/em> Twinkle Twinkle &#8211; so it&#8217;s one big song.&#8221; It was a (funny) jolt of reality, and despite the fact I was getting scolded for singing incorrectly, I still enjoyed our bounce.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night, about a half-hour after we had put her to bed, Zoe called me into her room and simply said, &#8220;Bounce me.&#8221; I still occasionally rock or bounce Zoe when she&#8217;s sick or upset, but this was the first time in ages that she has asked for it on her own &#8211; 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":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-60-two-kids-july-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455","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=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9487,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions\/9487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}