{"id":2124,"date":"2012-12-17T17:30:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2012-12-17T17:30:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:30:59","slug":"todays-assignments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/todays-assignments-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a post today in honor of those lost last Friday.\u00a0 It was taking me a long time and our house is chaotic at the moment (five kids, who&#8217;d guess there would be chaos?).\u00a0 I realized how backwards that was, so I am putting off that post and I am going to go spend time with my children.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.morguefile.com\/imageData\/public\/files\/m\/melodi2\/preview\/fldr_2008_11_28\/file0002122926741.jpg\" width=\"467\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to pick any three to do today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do something magical with your children (there are over a hundred previous lists tagged &#8220;ways to make the day magical&#8221; if you need inspiration).<\/li>\n<li>Donate to a children&#8217;s charity in honor of those who were lost.<\/li>\n<li>Do something really nice for yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Do a random act of kindness with your kids.<\/li>\n<li>Make a wonderful, happy mess with your kids and then put on wacky clothes and happy music to clean it up together.<\/li>\n<li>Count your blessings.<\/li>\n<li>Snuggle your kids and let them know how much you love them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>My thoughts are with all those who are grieving today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a post today in honor of those lost last Friday.\u00a0 It was taking me a long time and our house is chaotic at the moment (five kids, who&#8217;d guess there would be chaos?).\u00a0 I realized how backwards that was, so I am putting off that post and I am going to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124"}],"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=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}