{"id":8305,"date":"2014-11-07T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2016-09-07T19:32:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:32:53","slug":"happy-friday-and-some-extra-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8305","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday and Some Extra Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0145\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3938\/15389727929_dd63ecce72_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0145\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3938\/15389727929_dd63ecce72_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0145\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a>We have had a pretty busy week &#8212; a lot of school functions and house repairs, a lot of running around and just generally trying to stay on top of it all. Hoping for a nice relaxing weekend full of reading and lying around!<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of reading (<em>and running around too much<\/em>), if you&#8217;re up for it, head over to the Washington Post to read an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/parenting\/wp\/2014\/11\/03\/why-were-saying-no-to-extra-curriculars\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> I recently wrote about extra-curricular activities and our choice not to engage the kids in them (just yet). Have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a pretty busy week &#8212; a lot of school functions and house repairs, a lot of running around and just generally trying to stay on top of it all. Hoping for a nice relaxing weekend full of reading and lying around! And speaking of reading (and running around too much), if you&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8305\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Friday and Some Extra Reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8313,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}