{"id":39683,"date":"2023-02-17T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T01:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?p=39683"},"modified":"2023-02-17T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T03:04:58","slug":"happy-birthday-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=39683","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Ma!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am finally getting around to posting my pics from last weekend. It&#8217;s been a rough week, with lots of sickness in the house, this time including me. I can&#8217;t tell you how relieved I was to wake up better this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In celebration, I got out both the cameras and uploaded the photos that Ellie and I took at Grandma&#8217;s house. I had such fun looking, as it were, through Ellie&#8217;s eyes! You&#8217;ll just have to see if you can tell which ones are hers and which are mine. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>One last note, for all you Mamas out there: Get In The Picture! When your kids want to take your photo, or get a selfie with you, just do it. DO IT! I used to hate being in photos SO MUCH! But, to quote Monty Python, &#8220;I got bettah!&#8221; Now I look at these pics Ellie took of me and I don&#8217;t even cringe a little bit. I&#8217;m grateful because she&#8217;s looking at me with love from behind that camera &#8211; how can I not send it right back? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am finally getting around to posting my pics from last weekend. It&#8217;s been a rough week, with lots of sickness in the house, this time including me. I can&#8217;t tell you how relieved I was to wake up better this morning. In celebration, I got out both the cameras and uploaded the photos that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39684,"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":[628,101,43,3,121],"tags":[305,332,152],"class_list":["post-39683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adopted-joy","category-birthday","category-celebrations","category-family","category-fun","tag-birthdays","tag-celebrations","tag-family-3","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39683","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=39683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39729,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39683\/revisions\/39729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}