{"id":777,"date":"2004-09-29T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/09\/this-is-progress-part-2.html"},"modified":"2004-09-29T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T20:15:00","slug":"this-is-progress-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/09\/this-is-progress-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"This Is Progress? Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when I said I offer Doodles everything I eat<\/a>? He always turned down everything. So I just kept offering. Well, it finally back fired. He finally accepted something from me. I held it out to him, and he grabbed it.<\/p>\n

“Yikes!” I said as he popped it in his mouth and then looked to me for more. Wanting to know if it were just a fluke or not, I handed him another. He popped it in his mouth and chewed.<\/p>\n

“What did you do?” Adam called from the next room.<\/p>\n

“Good news!” I said with false cheer. “I found something new Doodles will eat!”<\/p>\n

“It’s not Peeps, is it?” Adam asked worried.<\/p>\n

“No, no, of course not!” I reassured him. “I’d never feed him Peeps!” Because let’s face it–what kind of dilemma would that be when I have just one box of Peeps left and my child wants one? How does one choose between the happiness of her child and the last twelve Peeps?<\/p>\n

“Then what is he eating?” Adam pokes his head out to check on us.<\/p>\n

“Uh, well”–Doodles looks to me for more; I hand him another–“he seems to like candy corn!”<\/p>\n

Doodles gives Adam a big grin.<\/p>\n

Adam goes back to what he’s doing, but only after giving me a concerned look. “Could you please not feed our child any more candy corn?”<\/p>\n

Point taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when I said I offer Doodles everything I eat? He always turned down everything. So I just kept offering. Well, it finally back fired. He finally accepted something from me. I held it out to him, and he grabbed it. “Yikes!” I said as he popped it in his mouth and then looked to […]<\/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-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}