{"id":737,"date":"2004-12-22T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/12\/it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time.html"},"modified":"2004-12-22T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T20:32:00","slug":"it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/12\/it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time.html","title":{"rendered":"It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good idea: Doodles is a messy child. I&#8217;m always searching for a wipe. So I thought it would be clever to simply leave a box of wipes in the car to wipe the snot, sand, and unknowns off his face.<br \/>\n<br \/>Reality: I live in New England. Where it&#8217;s winter. Take one box of wipes, place in car. You have a solid block of ice wipes. Not so useful anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Good idea: Doodles is starting to speak. So I babble all the time and say, &#8220;Can you say [what Mommy just said]?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Reality: Babbling while paying bills: &#8220;Duh, Mom! You need a pen to write the checks. Doodles can you say, &#8216;Duh, Mom&#8217;? Uh&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good idea: Doodles was sick and so we couldn&#8217;t go on our play dates. Where to go with a child who needs to run around? Why, the mall!<br \/>\n<br \/>Reality: Um, who&#8217;s the mommy that forgot just because her holiday is over and her shopping was finished in November that others might not be in the same boat? Let&#8217;s recap. The <i>mall<\/i>. Four days before Christmas. Four friggin&#8217; days before Christmas. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good idea: Doodles is a messy child. I&#8217;m always searching for a wipe. So I thought it would be clever to simply leave a box of wipes in the car to wipe the snot, sand, and unknowns off his face. Reality: I live in New England. Where it&#8217;s winter. Take one box of wipes, place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}