{"id":300,"date":"2009-11-09T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T08:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-11-09T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T08:25:39","slug":"at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/11\/09\/at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"At home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the weekend at the farm.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Reasons I like going to the farm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I get lots of help with diaper changing, feeding, watching, holding, and otherwise adoring babies.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;ve got dial-up web access and bad cell coverage, so we are pretty much unplugged when we&#8217;re there.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a nice change to go to a little country church where everybody is family.<\/li>\n<li>The babies are finally starting to sleep better when we&#8217;re there.&nbsp; Wahoooo!<\/li>\n<li>Lots of good chatting with my MIL and the extended fam.<\/li>\n<li>Eric gets to hang out with his brothers and just catch up (and sometimes he gets to &#8220;play&#8221; farmer, too).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reasons I like coming home from the farm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sleeping in my own bed<\/li>\n<li>Having Eric all to myself on the drive home<\/li>\n<li>Getting plugged back in again<\/li>\n<li>Listening to my babies play while I type on the computer<\/li>\n<li>Not having to be &#8220;on&#8221; all the time (and be social)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seriously, though, I do love the farm.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a great place to get away.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s always nice to come home, too.&nbsp; Of course, now I have to put our house back together and do laundry (is that all I ever do these days?!?).&nbsp; But it should be a low-key day otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>But for some, today is not even remotely low-key.&nbsp; If you can, please pray for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycharmingkids.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stellan<\/a>.&nbsp; He just turned one at the end of October.&nbsp; He&#8217;s supposed to have heart surgery today (it had to be moved up from tomorrow), and it&#8217;s major, major surgery.&nbsp; But they&#8217;re struggling to keep him stable until that time (check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MckMama\" rel=\"nofollow\">mom&#8217;s tweets<\/a>).&nbsp; It&#8217;s seriously starting to be life-or-death for this little guy.&nbsp; So yay&#8230;please pray for him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the weekend at the farm.&nbsp; Reasons I like going to the farm: I get lots of help with diaper changing, feeding, watching, holding, and otherwise adoring babies. They&#8217;ve got dial-up web access and bad cell coverage, so we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/11\/09\/at-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}