{"id":2145,"date":"2009-11-24T23:11:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T03:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2009-12-31T23:53:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T03:53:17","slug":"51-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2009\/11\/51-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"5.1 Years Old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Carolyn,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been debating for a while now about whether to continue writing monthly letters to you.\u00a0 On the one hand, I&#8217;d like to think that when you&#8217;re older you&#8217;ll love to go back and read them.\u00a0 On the other hand, I think that in between now and then you&#8217;re going to be really embarrassed that I took the time to document your life on the internet.\u00a0 Although, rest assured, you are certainly <em>not<\/em> the only child who has a &#8220;mommy blogger&#8221; for a mom.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to do.\u00a0 I love writing the letters to you, and I think it would be really strange to just stop.\u00a0 Maybe I should write them a bit less often &#8211; your birthday and half-birthday?\u00a0 Or maybe I should write them on good old-fashioned paper&#8230;or not.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2177\" title=\"20091025_leaves\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20091025_leaves.jpg\" alt=\"20091025_leaves\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See, today you are 5 years and 1 month old.\u00a0 And I thought to myself that I should stop writing you letters on my blog.\u00a0 And I was really going to stop.\u00a0 But then I thought that you&#8217;d be looking through someday and get to the last one, when you turned 5, and wonder why I just suddenly stopped.\u00a0 So, I started writing to tell you that I was going to stop, and now there&#8217;s a whole letter full of angst about whether I should be writing you letters.<\/p>\n<p>What will I do next month?\u00a0 I guess we&#8217;ll have to wait and see!<\/p>\n<p>Love, Mommy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Carolyn, I&#8217;ve been debating for a while now about whether to continue writing monthly letters to you.\u00a0 On the one hand, I&#8217;d like to think that when you&#8217;re older you&#8217;ll love to go back and read them.\u00a0 On the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn-monthly-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}