{"id":218,"date":"2013-07-17T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2013-07-17T03:53:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T03:53:11","slug":"the-reflection-in-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"The reflection in the mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">After Gio&#8217;s bath, dress and prepare for bed routine. I picked him up in my arms and looked directly in front of me. I was looking in the mirror and what I saw made my eyes water. I saw the back of my boys head with his new haircut plus 5 years. He was a big boy and he was giving his mommy a hug. The vision seemed so real and it made me hold him even tighter. I wiped away a tear and began singing rock-a-bye baby like I always do. He said the last word of every verse and then kissed me on the cheek. I squeezed him once more before saying goodnight. They are growing so quickly and yet they are so small and fragile.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Gio&#8217;s bath, dress and prepare for bed routine. I picked him up in my arms and looked directly in front of me. I was looking in the mirror and what I saw made my eyes water. I saw the back of my boys head with his new haircut plus 5 years. He was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}