{"id":158,"date":"2009-07-06T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/06\/just-one-of-those-days\/"},"modified":"2009-07-06T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T22:51:00","slug":"just-one-of-those-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/just-one-of-those-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Just One of Those Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>My girls are off with Daddy at a late night play rehearsal (opening night is Friday!) and Alex is fast asleep.&nbsp; Jack was up late playing on the computer a few minutes ago when I suddenly heard a blood curling scream.<\/p>\n<p>I went racing downstairs as he came flying upstairs, tears streaming down his face.&nbsp; He held his finger out and wailed, &quot;I bit my finger!&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>I hugged him and hurried him to the sink, where I ran cold water over it as I got the rest of the story.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Yep, he bit it.&nbsp; He wasn&#8217;t paying attention and was apparently chewing on his nail when he accidentally missed, and quite forcefully chomped down hard on his own poor finger.<\/p>\n<p>I hugged him close, called him my poor boy, ran more cold water and tried to apply a little pressure.&nbsp; That made him scream more and he finally decided he was okay enough to go back to his Nick Jr. game.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>As he settled back down and choked back his tears, he proclaimed, &quot;The only way this day could get worse is if I bit my OTHER finger!&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Well yes.&nbsp; True, that would be worse!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to decide if that&#8217;s his version of looking on the bright side or if I should prepare for another shriek.<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My girls are off with Daddy at a late night play rehearsal (opening night is Friday!) and Alex is fast asleep.&nbsp; Jack was up late playing on the computer a few minutes ago when I suddenly heard a blood curling scream. I went racing downstairs as he came flying upstairs, tears streaming down his face.&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}