{"id":524,"date":"2009-02-23T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2009-02-23T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T01:48:00","slug":"the-beauty-of-being-a-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Being a Boy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SaP8yxjvMhI\/AAAAAAAABeQ\/FUuZb7lEJGU\/s1600-h\/DSC_0211.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SaP8yxjvMhI\/AAAAAAAABeQ\/FUuZb7lEJGU\/s400\/DSC_0211.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306362735199466002\" \/><\/a><br \/>Today, after school, I had to make a quick stop at the grocery store. <\/p>\n<p>Sammy and Josh were home.  I only had the middle 4 boys with me.<\/p>\n<p>They know to behave.  They are usually good in public.  Today the tiles on floor became a play ground.<br \/>They were really rambunctious.<\/p>\n<p>A lady looks at me and smiles with sympathy (I am assuming) and says&#8230;&#8221; Oh dear, Boys!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had no reply.  The proof was in the pudding.  I think I just grunted a reply or maybe I just made a sound.<\/p>\n<p>There is such beauty in boys.  There is wonderful excitement, energy and noise.  It just follows them as they run around.<\/p>\n<p>LIfe is a big playground.  Objects, any objects are for swings, climbing and jumping off.<\/p>\n<p>The louder the better.  The rougher the greater the adventure.  They can&#8217;t seem to help but touch everything and every one.<br \/>They can&#8217;t help but talk, tease and taunt.   The object is to get a rise out of the nearest thing  breathing.<\/p>\n<p>They love to joke, trick and prank.  They will pee wherever is convenient.  And then brag about it.<\/p>\n<p>They love to bounce off the walls.  They love to chase each other with something disgusting. <\/p>\n<p>The best part is that laughter that follows the boyish craze&#8230; if you have a boy in your life, you know the laugh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It is a belly laugh, loud and full of delight.  Victory.  Total thrill of the kill.<\/p>\n<p>Every mom, no matter how annoyed you are, can not help but smile.  You can&#8217;t help it.  Beauty.  That smile.  Music.  That laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Boys.  Strange, wonderful, lovely yet odd creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Oh how I love them.  Oh how I love them most when they are still&#8230; content, snoring from a day of being boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, after school, I had to make a quick stop at the grocery store. Sammy and Josh were home. I only had the middle 4 boys with me. They know to behave. They are usually good in public. Today the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}