{"id":1341,"date":"2009-07-13T12:50:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2012-05-19T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:50:14","slug":"monday-and-172-days-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2009\/07\/monday-and-172-days-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday and 172 days of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are basically normal. I&#8217;m back at work for the third consecutive month since Veronica was born. I&#8217;m not dead yet, and neither is she. Days have taken on a familiar shape.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how my daughter can fill up all the spaces in my life. I&#8217;ve always been good at getting things done in the margins. There were the big things that filled the day, but there was all this white space too. Quite frankly, I have seldom been asked to use full capacity.<\/p>\n<p>But this baby oozes into the spaces. I have to look hard for the spaces to fit the other things into. I&#8217;m beginning to find them.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I&#8217;m learning to cook <em>super fast<\/em> while Veronica entertains herself in a bouncy chair. And I keep up with the laundry by never missing an opportunity to chip away at it.<\/p>\n<p>60 seconds? Monuments can be built in that span.<\/p>\n<p>I would not say it&#8217;s easy. But I can say it&#8217;s possible. And I can believe it would be possible to have more than one. Now I just have to convince Chris.<\/p>\n<p>And if anybody wants recipes for superquick prepare-ahead-for-the-week meals, I got &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are basically normal. I&#8217;m back at work for the third consecutive month since Veronica was born. I&#8217;m not dead yet, and neither is she. Days have taken on a familiar shape. It&#8217;s funny how my daughter can fill up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2009\/07\/monday-and-172-days-of-life\/\">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":[22,16,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworthy","category-little-house","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\/1341","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=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}