{"id":28499,"date":"2019-04-24T19:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28499"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:19:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:19:36","slug":"briefly-spending-time-with-children-makes-me-eager-for-my-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28499","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Spending time with children makes me eager for my own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Isabella-Wednesday-night.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28501\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Isabella-Wednesday-night.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Isabella-Wednesday-night.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Isabella-Wednesday-night-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got to hang out with <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">little Isabella<\/a> at dinner again tonight. She came running when she saw me and wanted me to pick her up. Then she wanted to see cat pictures and she wanted to know why I didn\u2019t bring Lucy with me again. (She also stole a few French fries.)\u00a0I know that raising healthy and happy children is the toughest job in the world \u2014 and some days can be miserable when you\u2019re a parent \u2014 but being around kids makes me really eager to finally have some of my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to hang out with little Isabella at dinner again tonight. She came running when she saw me and wanted me to pick her up. Then she wanted to see cat pictures and she wanted to know why I didn\u2019t bring Lucy with me again. (She also stole a few French fries.)\u00a0I know that <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28499\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7pF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28502,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499\/revisions\/28502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}