{"id":771,"date":"2008-08-25T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-16T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:17:28","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Deep Breaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Deep Breaths<\/b><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t feel weepy on the first day my children go to school.  Never have.  I actually think that getting weepy is sweet and it kind of doesn&#8217;t make sense since in my normal state I could get misty thinking about lots of things &#8212; the first day of school just isn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it is because I&#8217;m so dang nervous &#8212; for my boys.  There will be lots of deep calming breaths taken by me today.  And there is probably no reason for it.  They&#8217;ll probably do fine.<\/p>\n<p>Neuro-typical is easy y&#8217;all.  FREAKING EASY, I tell you.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully I have an incredibly busy day to punch the anxiety down&#8230;..grocery store, target run, meet and greet at pre-k, home to pack lunch, lunch monitor at school, home to tidy a bit, off to get 3 sons at 3 different schools, home to fix dinner, off to a class on classical education.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to a happy first day of school, everybody, and to the weepers and deep breathers among us &#8212; this too shall pass.<\/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>Deep Breaths I don&#8217;t feel weepy on the first day my children go to school. Never have. I actually think that getting weepy is sweet and it kind of doesn&#8217;t make sense since in my normal state I could get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=771\">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\/771"}],"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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}