{"id":1101,"date":"2019-01-12T17:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2019-01-13T00:08:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T00:08:50","slug":"kennedys-birthday-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy&#8217;s Birthday Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flipsnack.com\/AE5A55A7C6F\/kennedy-s-letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.flipsnack.com\/AE5A55A7C6F\/kennedy-s-letter.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My sister Kelly sent out a text to many of the women in her life, asking each of us to write a letter in honor of her daughter Kennedy\u2019s 13th birthday. The request read, \u201cplease write a note to Kennedy, telling her one thing that you wish you had known when you were 13.\u201d Since I can\u2019t let good enough alone, I came up with 13 things that I wish I\u2019d known.<\/p>\n<p>Included in this blog is a copy of the little booklet that I made for Kennedy. While all 13 were important nuggets, to me, the most important was the final one,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve always had the power my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Glinda the Good Witch<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If all 13 year old girls took that advice to heart, the world would be a different, better place. What I know about our Kennedy, is that she already knows this!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, sweet girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.flipsnack.com\/AE5A55A7C6F\/kennedy-s-letter.html My sister Kelly sent out a text to many of the women in her life, asking each of us to write a letter in honor of her daughter Kennedy\u2019s 13th birthday. The request read, \u201cplease write a note to Kennedy, telling her one thing that you wish you had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}