{"id":1734,"date":"2009-07-13T08:14:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2009-07-13T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T16:46:51","slug":"holding-our-breath-best-shot-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Holding our breath ~ Best Shot Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday was a pivotal moment in our house. Addie took her maiden voyage across a pool, by herself.<\/p>\n<p>She can swim. And we are all so proud of her &#8211; including her biggest cheerleader, Em.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the week, when she started lessons, it looked a little grim. Her instructor said, &#8220;Wow, she is really stubborn, isn&#8217;t she?&#8221; as she handed me back a writhing, screaming, temper-tantrum throwing mess, that sort of resembled my daughter.<\/p>\n<p>But the difference between Tuesday and Friday is simply astounding! This weekend we had use of our neighbor&#8217;s pool and she practiced and perfected her little seal-like underwater sprint. And mugged for Daddy and his underwater camera&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Smile - You're underwater! by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/3716393539\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3500\/3716393539_515ca30a49_b.jpg\" alt=\"Smile - You're underwater!\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t someone tell me that this swimming thing is just so easy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"It's just so easy! by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/3717207570\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2642\/3717207570_34e0ed9e84_b.jpg\" alt=\"It's just so easy!\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traceyclark.squarespace.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i95.photobucket.com\/albums\/l134\/maypapers\/bsmstar140button.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bsm\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday was a pivotal moment in our house. Addie took her maiden voyage across a pool, by herself. She can swim. And we are all so proud of her &#8211; including her biggest cheerleader, Em. At the beginning of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1734\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addison","category-best-shot-monday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-rY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}