{"id":681,"date":"2009-08-30T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2009-08-30T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T12:52:00","slug":"caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Caution!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SpqH5Mb2vfI\/AAAAAAAACUM\/K8iumTlfodo\/s1600-h\/IMG_0228.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SpqH5Mb2vfI\/AAAAAAAACUM\/K8iumTlfodo\/s400\/IMG_0228.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375758521880460786\" \/><\/a><br \/>Last night I had a hundred different things I needed to write.  I was too tired.  Yet I couldn&#8217;t stop the thoughts from flowing.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was thinking of all the things that parents do, good and bad.  I was thinking of how hard it is&#8230; parenting.  I was thinking of the years past when they were babies.  It really was easy when they were babies.  Feed them, change them, play with them, love them&#8230; all of which was so natural.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now&#8230; it is hit or miss.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I can still love them till it hurts but that isn&#8217;t enough.   They can hurt back.   That wasn&#8217;t the deal&#8230; was it?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am not good at this stage.  Suddenly I realize why God gave me Josh.  While my 14 year old is there being not so nice&#8230; my 4 year old lays there and says to me, &#8220;You are a good mommy.  I love you.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Caution&#8230; parenting is not for the weak at heart!  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had a hundred different things I needed to write. I was too tired. Yet I couldn&#8217;t stop the thoughts from flowing. I was thinking of all the things that parents do, good and bad. I was thinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=681\">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":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}