{"id":2423,"date":"2010-03-22T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2010-03-22T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:51:40","slug":"gearing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=2423","title":{"rendered":"Gearing up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed? \u00a0In the last month or so I&#8217;ve posted more than I had in the previous 8 months or so. \u00a0There&#8217;s a reason for it. \u00a0A marathon runner doesn&#8217;t just jump back into it after a few years off, right? \u00a0They need to train (hard) and prepare themselves mentally and physically for the race.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m up to. \u00a0No, not training for a marathon. \u00a0I am not crazy. \u00a0I am in training for the photo of the day posts I plan after Frank the Baby is born, just like I did for Jaia. \u00a0I always promised myself that if I was going to do it for one, I&#8217;d do it for the other. \u00a0It&#8217;s only fair.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as any of you who been reading all along know, I&#8217;ve attempted the &#8216;photo a day&#8217; at least a couple of times since Jaia was wee and have failed miserably. \u00a0Once less than a week later. \u00a0Shame. \u00a0So I figured if I prep from now until the baby arrives with no pressure and no promises, I&#8217;ll be able to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I think.<\/p>\n<p>I hope.<\/p>\n<p>And so since I took NO pictures this weekend &#8211; even with ample opportunity to with plenty of family over 3 days in a row, including a surprise breakfast with my sister Kathryn, I have to post a slightly older photo for today. \u00a0This one, like the other, was taken by Dan. \u00a0Not too many exist of just Jaia and I. \u00a0I love it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_3989sm1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2424\" title=\"DSC_3989sm1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_3989sm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed? \u00a0In the last month or so I&#8217;ve posted more than I had in the previous 8 months or so. \u00a0There&#8217;s a reason for it. \u00a0A marathon runner doesn&#8217;t just jump back into it after a few years off, right? \u00a0They need to train (hard) and prepare themselves mentally and physically for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16,26,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}