{"id":20472,"date":"2021-03-23T22:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T03:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=20472"},"modified":"2021-03-23T22:01:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T03:01:44","slug":"this-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2021\/20210323-20472.htm","title":{"rendered":"This Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, I just want to take a snapshot of this moment in time, so I can remember the ordinary not-so-noteworthy things that nevertheless make life as a parent of young children so delightful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like how Shiloh is taking her tentative first steps &#8211; three to five at a time, but only when she thinks no one is watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like how Beth-Ellen gave me dozens of pretend gifts for my birthday and then carefully gathered together all the pretend wrapping paper and took it to papa to be shredded and composted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like how Louis has suddenly decided that drawing is a thing and is busily creating books full of animals, complete with captions, when only a week ago he didn&#8217;t even bother trying to be representational with his artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like how Tirzah Mae found a math workbook and raced through half of it in less than a day&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, Lord, for these precious moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I just want to take a snapshot of this moment in time, so I can remember the ordinary not-so-noteworthy things that nevertheless make life as a parent of young children so delightful. Like how Shiloh is taking her tentative first steps &#8211; three to five at a time, but only when she thinks no &#8230; <a title=\"This Moment\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2021\/20210323-20472.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Moment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20473,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472\/revisions\/20473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}