{"id":7684,"date":"2013-11-11T22:37:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T03:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=7684"},"modified":"2013-11-11T22:38:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T03:38:27","slug":"three-and-a-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=7684","title":{"rendered":"three and a half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, while the kids are at school I&#8217;m going to whip up a cake for my little dude. \u00a0And we&#8217;ll celebrate. \u00a0You see, tomorrow he turns three and a half.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been half birthday celebrators over here. \u00a0Think it lame if you will, but I like finding reasons to celebrate, even the smallest things. \u00a0Because, why not?<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is, Wes isn&#8217;t happy about it. \u00a0He wants to be 4 already and is kind of pissed about the whole only being 3.5 business. \u00a0He thinks that being 4 is more fun. \u00a0At 4 you go to big kid school, you sit in a booster seat, and you sit with friends at assemblies (we attended Jaia&#8217;s Remembrance Day ceremony and dud wanted to be with the kids, not his mama). \u00a0At 4 you are bigger and at 3 you are still small.<\/p>\n<p>But no matter. \u00a0Tomorrow, Wes will turn three and half years old, and we will sing and eat cake and he&#8217;ll think, even for a short time, that not yet being 4 is actually pretty cool, just like him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7685\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Wes_3.5sm.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Wes_3.5sm.jpg 750w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Wes_3.5sm-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, while the kids are at school I&#8217;m going to whip up a cake for my little dude. \u00a0And we&#8217;ll celebrate. \u00a0You see, tomorrow he turns three and a half. We&#8217;ve been half birthday celebrators over here. \u00a0Think it lame if you will, but I like finding reasons to celebrate, even the smallest things. \u00a0Because, [&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":[5,6,37,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684"}],"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=7684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7688,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions\/7688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}