{"id":1171,"date":"2010-08-04T10:03:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2010-08-04T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T17:04:48","slug":"home-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Home Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4141\/4860066509_d77eaa6c10.jpg\" alt=\"granola with blackberries\" \/> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>This morning for breakfast we had granola, yogurt, and blackberries from our back yard: doesn&#8217;t it look pretty?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud of how well I&#8217;m holding things together now that Sam is back at work. For the past couple days I&#8217;ve managed to do potty\/story time with Robin; basic housekeeping tasks (laundry, dishes, making the beds, picking things up off the floor); and trips to the park, in and around soothing a restless baby who never wants to be set down ever ever ever. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ergobabycarrier.com\/\">Ergo<\/a> baby sling has been my friend and boon companion, but I&#8217;ve also gratefully accepted Pops and Mo&#8217;s offer to buy us an electronic swing, so that I don&#8217;t always have to be trying to do things with a baby strapped in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also excited because yesterday I got my first request for a &#8220;full&#8221; from an agent, meaning that he&#8217;s read the opening chapters of my novel and now wants to see the rest. I think this is a really good sign that the edits I made to the first chapters are working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning for breakfast we had granola, yogurt, and blackberries from our back yard: doesn&#8217;t it look pretty? I&#8217;m proud of how well I&#8217;m holding things together now that Sam is back at work. For the past couple days I&#8217;ve managed to do potty\/story time with Robin; basic housekeeping tasks (laundry, dishes, making the beds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}