{"id":1338,"date":"2009-07-04T17:56:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T00:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2012-05-19T07:46:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:46:22","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2009\/07\/independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a great day this has been! I slept in, my baby took several mini-naps before we were going anywhere. I got laundry dishes AND a few extra things done. Yay.<\/p>\n<p>Then I dressed her in her 4th of July outfit to go meet with friends:<br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_9303 by murphy_h2001, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/murphy_pics\/3688896438\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3617\/3688896438_1dcd85ea3b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9303\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My muffin loves socializing. She was tired, but she was quiet and cheerful with all the new people who wished to hold and admire her. There were a lot of kids running around, and it was a lot of fun to hang out and visit.<\/p>\n<p>Having a child does seem to narrow my world.\u00a0 And this is a holiday to celebrate independence, right? But pure independence is not possible in this life. I depend on a lot of things. And now, my baby depends entirely on me.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the flip side of independence you know. Not just that I need others than myself, but that I am utterly needed. I have a dependent now. I guess I&#8217;ll have to have independence with this little one hanging on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great day this has been! I slept in, my baby took several mini-naps before we were going anywhere. I got laundry dishes AND a few extra things done. Yay. Then I dressed her in her 4th of July &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2009\/07\/independence-day\/\">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-1338","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\/1338","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=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}