{"id":760,"date":"2007-02-11T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T02:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=760"},"modified":"2007-02-11T20:37:52","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T02:37:52","slug":"thoughts-on-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/02\/11\/thoughts-on-a-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on a mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of my favorite pictures of Leah when she was carrying Ava:<\/p>\n

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Aside from always being a bit envious of photogenic people, I just love how Leah glows here. Since I’ve never figured out exactly how the whole month-counting thing works, I’ll simply say that this picture was taken April 2004 (Ava was born in September ’04).<\/p>\n

When I look at this picture now, I imagine Ava 13 years from now, lying on her bed with her friends and looking at old pictures on a laptop (or whatever kids are using a decade from now to view pictures). They’ll come to this picture, and all Ava’s friends will say, “Wow, your mother was so beautiful!” As beautiful as Leah remains, it’s a bit sad that Ava didn’t know her mother then. I only hope she understands that all that beauty she sees on her mother’s outside was due to all the beauty her mother felt inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one of my favorite pictures of Leah when she was carrying Ava: Aside from always being a bit envious of photogenic people, I just love how Leah glows here. Since I’ve never figured out exactly how the whole month-counting thing works, I’ll simply say that this picture was taken April 2004 (Ava was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-cg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}