{"id":2570,"date":"2011-07-24T16:07:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T23:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2017-06-28T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T06:25:25","slug":"filed-under-things-that-make-moms-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=2570","title":{"rendered":"Filed under: Things That Make Mom&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From the boy who has been cringing away from my hugs for years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q.O.D.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like to be hugged.\u00a0 I only like to <em>hug<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So now, when my motherly instincts tell me he needs one, I open my arms, stand in front of him, and say, &#8220;Would you like to hug me?&#8221;\u00a0 And he throws his arms around me in an exuberant and unrestrained squeeze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Words are insufficient to express the sweetness of this revelation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the boy who has been cringing away from my hugs for years&#8230; Q.O.D. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like to be hugged.\u00a0 I only like to hug.&#8221; So now, when my motherly instincts tell me he needs one, I open my arms, stand in front of him, and say, &#8220;Would you like to hug me?&#8221;\u00a0 And he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-netties-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}