{"id":4912,"date":"2008-05-20T12:08:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T12:08:44","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=4912","title":{"rendered":"I Have Observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I Have Observed<\/b><br \/>\nThat mothers of boys who don&#8217;t really look where they are stepping should at all costs avoid wearing long skirts with elastic waists.  Why, do you say, should this be avoided?  Well, imagine that a boy steps on a skirt and mother doesn&#8217;t know until <i>she<\/i> has stepped in the other direction.  I much prefer wearing my skirt than picking it up off the ground.  Especially as one who wears long skirts to cover up, being accidently de-skirted by one&#8217;s child is really too much.<\/p>\n<p>That drinking wine at dinner really lessens my ambition to do anything worthwhile after dinner.  Like walk on my treadmill, fold laundry, wash dishes,&#8230;..funny, it doesn&#8217;t interfere with reading magazines, surfing the internet, or reading books.  Perhaps I should defer drinking my wine until after all my work is done?  It is worth consideration.<\/p>\n<p>That counting down the days that remain on the school calendars of one&#8217;s children is sort of a negative way to start the summer.  My  inclination of viewing it as sort of a vacation (mine) coming to a close as their holiday begins is wrong, wrong, wrong.  So today, the first thing on my list is to get my head straight about this&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I can get Eliza to come pay me a visit.  She could bring her energy up here and advise my on all of my difficulties, cook us some fabulous food, give me pointers on my appearance and, if need be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.html?cm_id=528\">yell at my dog<\/a> a little.  Of course, the dog has changed, but that won&#8217;t matter to her.<\/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>I Have Observed That mothers of boys who don&#8217;t really look where they are stepping should at all costs avoid wearing long skirts with elastic waists. Why, do you say, should this be avoided? Well, imagine that a boy steps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4912\">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\/4912"}],"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=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}