{"id":4899,"date":"2008-04-12T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4899","title":{"rendered":"Riding in a Van With a Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Riding in a Van With a Boy<\/b><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been doing a bit of driving lately.  This spring has been so beautiful.  And, as much as I like sunny spring weather, there is something that I&#8217;ve always loved about seeing the green of spring trees against a grey sky.  <\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, when I&#8217;m driving, I have my youngest son with me.  He is a great traveler &#8212; I think that part of this is due to being the fourth.  When one is the fourth, one automatically gets dragged around everywhere.  And he is usually happy to go. <\/p>\n<p>Today we were listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Frog-and-Toad-Audio-Collection\/Arnold-Lobel\/e\/9780060740535\/?itm=19\">Frog and Toad<\/a> while we were driving.  If you have children or if you buy gifts for children, I highly recommend this CD.  All of my boys love the stories.  They are read by Arnold Lobel, the author of the books.  He has such a relaxing voice that I told E after awhile that I was going to have to listen to something else, or I was going to fall asleep while driving.  So I put on one of the mixed CDs that Jon made me.  The third song on there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OG9LZvKDEZ0\">Thanks I Get<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilcoworld.net\/\">Wilco<\/a>.  I guess that I&#8217;ve listened to that song a lot because E immediately started singing along with the song. I told him that he was a great singer and he told me that he knew that he was a great singer.<\/p>\n<p>I love the confidence of 4 year olds.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding in a Van With a Boy I&#8217;ve been doing a bit of driving lately. This spring has been so beautiful. And, as much as I like sunny spring weather, there is something that I&#8217;ve always loved about seeing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4899\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}