{"id":2482,"date":"2010-05-30T22:23:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T05:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2010-05-30T22:26:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T05:26:39","slug":"gratitude-best-shot-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2482","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude ~ Best Shot Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m sitting here this evening filled with a whole lot of gratitude.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m grateful for good mommy friends and kid-free nights out that are full of laughs.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m grateful for friends who invite us into their home to share good food and conversations.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m grateful for my husband who works so very hard for our family, even traveling on holidays.<br \/>\n(I&#8217;m grateful &#8211; for his sake &#8211; that he at least gets a first class seat on his 14-hour plane ride tonight.)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m grateful for the men and women who fight for us and allow me to spend time<br \/>\nwith my three favorite monkeys in a country that is safe and free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"j_girls_copy.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/4655291664\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4054\/4655291664_27461a630d_b.jpg\" alt=\"j_girls_copy.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHappy Memorial Day. I hope you take a moment to count your blessings, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting here this evening filled with a whole lot of gratitude. I&#8217;m grateful for good mommy friends and kid-free nights out that are full of laughs. I&#8217;m grateful for friends who invite us into their home to share good &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2482\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-E2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482"}],"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=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}