{"id":1157,"date":"2013-07-24T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2013-07-24T14:36:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T18:36:02","slug":"drinking-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/drinking-on-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking on the Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a big drinker, but I do occasionally enjoy a glass of wine with my dinner or a nice cold beer on a hot afternoon (which is nearly every day in Florida!).\u00a0 As long as I\u2019ve been a mommy, though, I\u2019ve had a standing rule: no drinking when I\u2019m alone with my kids.<\/p>\n<p>This rule has nothing to do with driving, even when we were in Ireland and didn\u2019t have a car, I didn\u2019t drink when hubby was gone.\u00a0 It\u2019s a matter of safety; I want to be sure that I am 100% capable of handling any situation that may arise to the best of my ability.\u00a0 Even when my children are asleep for the night, I still won\u2019t drink because if something happens I want to be able to attend to them properly and get them help if needed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.7;\">Trust me, it\u2019s not always easy.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I want to drink to de-stress or \u201ctake the edge off\u201d, in fact I hate the feeling of being even tipsy.\u00a0 But sometimes I just want a gosh-darn beer! (I rarely crave wine and hardly ever drink hard liquor.)\u00a0 There are times when I just want something refreshing and water, milk, juice, tea, and soda have nothing on a nice cold beer!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/download-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1158 aligncenter\" alt=\"download (3)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/download-3-300x218.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/download-3-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/download-3-344x250.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/download-3-390x284.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/download-3.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a big drinker, but I do occasionally enjoy a glass of wine with my dinner or a nice cold beer on a hot afternoon (which is nearly every day in Florida!).\u00a0 As long as I\u2019ve been a mommy, though, I\u2019ve had a standing rule: no drinking when I\u2019m alone with my kids. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}