{"id":1456,"date":"2013-09-17T10:13:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T14:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2016-01-18T20:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T01:54:36","slug":"a-whole-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/a-whole-new-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whole New World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I feel like I need something else to do with my time.<\/p>\n

And then I look around my house and see all the things I could (or should?) be doing.<\/p>\n

And then I look at my amazing son, snuggled close to me, happily guzzling at my breast and looking into my eyes with all the wonder of this big, wide world.<\/p>\n

And then I look at the creativity and purpose in my three year-old\u2019s eyes as she works diligently, exploring all the possibilities that play-doh has to offer.<\/p>\n

And then I look at the fire and determination in my five year-old\u2019s eyes as she studies her sight words and takes pride in learning, knowing and owning each one.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>\u00a0And then I realize I don\u2019t need anything else to do with my time because nothing else could ever compare to the fulfillment and joy I receive from just being a mommy and experiencing the world over and over again through their eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I feel like I need something else to do with my time. And then I look around my house and see all the things I could (or should?) be doing. And then I look at my amazing son, snuggled close to me, happily guzzling at my breast and looking into my eyes with all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","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=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}