{"id":1856,"date":"2016-12-12T15:53:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:53:39","slug":"an-early-christmas-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"an early Christmas present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a lovely, dreary day today. I&#8217;m not being sarcastic, either. I am so glad for the dreariness and rain that we&#8217;ve had over the last few weeks. All forms of grey skies are welcome after a drought.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;re in December, we&#8217;re taking a month off of school. With so much going on during this time of year, it&#8217;s nice to take a mental break. The kids have filled their time with riding bikes, building worlds with LEGOs, and generally getting on each others&#8217; nerves.<\/p>\n<p>For the past hour, Lydia has been sitting by the tree with her nose in a book. She&#8217;s reading, you guys. Reading! A book! No pictures, just words! Y&#8217;all know how long she has struggled with reading. Watching her be interested in a book of her own accord is quite a sight to behold. <\/p>\n<p>She is sitting there, completely absorbed, without any awareness of how much she is blowing my mind.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3438-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"img_3438\" width=\"450\"  class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3438-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3438-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a lovely, dreary day today. I&#8217;m not being sarcastic, either. I am so glad for the dreariness and rain that we&#8217;ve had over the last few weeks. All forms of grey skies are welcome after a drought. Now that we&#8217;re in December, we&#8217;re taking a month off of school. With so much going on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}