{"id":352,"date":"2006-10-04T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2006\/10\/04\/two-hours-is-a-very-long-time\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:18:26","slug":"two-hours-is-a-very-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Two hours is a very long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very long time, indeed, when you&#8217;ve got six 3-year olds at your house for playgroup.  But if that&#8217;s the price I have to pay for 5 other week with two hours of freedom, then I will suck it up and host playgroup.  <\/p>\n<p>But, we survived intact.  No major injuries to speak of, and all the children left happy (returning to their happy refreshed mommies who also enjoyed the last two hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>And on a completely unrelated topic, I have a special talent.  When I&#8217;m feeling down about myself and can&#8217;t think of anything good to say or think about me, I will remember this talent.  When people are talking about unusual skill or talent, I can now pipe right up.  My talent?  I am an exceptionally fast showerer.  I know.  You are so totally impressed!  Yesterday, I got out of exercise class at 10:40.  John&#8217;s preschool ends at 11:00.  I had 20 minutes to run home, strip out of my sweaty clothes, take a shower (I even shaved my legs), dry, get dressed and get back to pick up John by 10:59.  Yes, I was impressed with my abilities, too.  No, I didn&#8217;t say my hair was dry or my makeup was on, but I was dressed in something other than a bathrobe, and I made it there ON TIME to pick him up.  I know you wish you were as talented as me!  What secret talents do you have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very long time, indeed, when you&#8217;ve got six 3-year olds at your house for playgroup. But if that&#8217;s the price I have to pay for 5 other week with two hours of freedom, then I will suck it up and host playgroup. But, we survived intact. No major injuries to speak of, and all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}