{"id":249,"date":"2009-10-08T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/08\/a-quick-assignment\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T17:06:00","slug":"a-quick-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/08\/a-quick-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">We&#8217;re at Grandma and Grandpa&#8217;s house for a few days while we volunteer at a wonderful outdoor history program for kids.&nbsp; I only have a moment on the in-laws&#8217; computer so I thought I&#8217;d check in and give a quick assignment!&nbsp; I can&#8217;t help it, it&#8217;s the homeschool mom in me.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to do one or more of the following!<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Find a small child and tell him 3 reasons you love him.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Find a small child and tell her you have been ordered to give her all the hugs she wants, any number she likes!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Make random silly faces at the kids.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Put birthday candles in dinner.&nbsp; Relight them lots.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Play chase with the kids until you&#8217;re out of breath.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Do anything with a small child that will make you laugh so much you have tears in your eyes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Leave a comment on this post about something magical you&#8217;ve done lately or want to do.&nbsp; <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Leave a comment on this post about anything at all.&nbsp; Really, there are like 3 people who ever comment and it makes me weep and sob nearly daily.&nbsp; You should see me.&nbsp; I&#8217;m a mess and the children haven&#8217;t eaten in weeks from the stress!&nbsp; (Okay, maybe all that is not quite true except about the 3 people, but I&#8217;m lonely here!&nbsp; I like people!&nbsp; I feel a bit like I&#8217;m sitting in a dark room at times!)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Well, enough of that.&nbsp; A certain 11 year-old just dropped a toddler on me and announced, &quot;You caused&nbsp;him, you keep him.&quot;&nbsp; See if I give <em>her<\/em> babysitting references!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday!&nbsp; See you soon!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re at Grandma and Grandpa&#8217;s house for a few days while we volunteer at a wonderful outdoor history program for kids.&nbsp; I only have a moment on the in-laws&#8217; computer so I thought I&#8217;d check in and give a quick assignment!&nbsp; I can&#8217;t help it, it&#8217;s the homeschool mom in me.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude09 Your assignment, should&#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":[33,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}