{"id":1277,"date":"2009-03-02T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2012-05-17T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:28:07","slug":"it-takes-a-little-time-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2009\/03\/it-takes-a-little-time-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"It takes a little time  sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little tough the last few days, trying to figure out what this child wants from me. She&#8217;s been moderately fussy, and when she cries for what seem to be long jags at a time, I really had nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Like I told my friend, &#8220;She doesn&#8217;t know how to do very many things. She can grab your finger. She can look at her mobile. She can suck her pacifier. Other than that, it&#8217;s eat sleep and fill her diapers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I knew that at some point, babies were supposed to be able to imitate faces that we make at them. So i tried it. I stuck my tongue out at her. It took her a few times, but<\/p>\n<p>SHE STUCK HERS OUT AT ME!<\/p>\n<p>it wasn&#8217;t just an accident either. Once she figured out it was our game she smiled and laughed when I put my tongue out.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a whole new world.<br \/>\n<a title=\"veronica 3-2-09 004 by murphy_h2001, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/murphy_pics\/3322655781\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3569\/3322655781_66205e138f.jpg\" alt=\"veronica 3-2-09 004\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little tough the last few days, trying to figure out what this child wants from me. She&#8217;s been moderately fussy, and when she cries for what seem to be long jags at a time, I really had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2009\/03\/it-takes-a-little-time-sometimes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworthy","category-motherhood","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}