{"id":1527,"date":"2019-05-22T03:34:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T03:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2019-05-22T03:34:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T03:34:42","slug":"the-magic-of-ordinary-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"The Magic of Ordinary Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a bonus today when Jack asked me to babysit for a few hours while he and Steph went to a TCU event.<\/p>\n<p>The boys and I went on an adventure as snake-hunters (thank goodness, we were unsuccessful) at the \u201ccreek\u201d near our old house. While there were no snakes, we did find a crawdaddy, which we all mistook for a small lobster.<\/p>\n<p>Every boy \u201caccidentally\u201d fell into the three-inch roaring stream, so their evening will be serenaded by thundering sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>These guys have my &#x2764;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p>I am guilty of wanting every experience with the boys to be an event. Pinterest-worthy. I want a theme and costumes and homemade cookies and pajamas that match the theme. But, you know&#8230;our best times are unplanned. Times when Jack calls at the last minute to see if I can spend an hour or two with my four favorite people. Give a boy a stick and a puddle to &#8220;accidentally&#8221; fall into, and he doesn&#8217;t need a theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a bonus today when Jack asked me to babysit for a few hours while he and Steph went to a TCU event. The boys and I went on an adventure as snake-hunters (thank goodness, we were unsuccessful) at the \u201ccreek\u201d near our old house. While there were no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"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=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}