{"id":9645,"date":"2015-07-27T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:41:23","slug":"summer-of-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9645","title":{"rendered":"Summer of Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC_0321\"<\/a>\"DSC_0253\"<\/a>They are perpetually moving, growing, changing, moving forward in this world, through time and space. To catch these moments and freeze them in time brings me a joy I can’t explain. I was there, this moment happened, and somehow it is now behind us now, yet here it is. In motion, yet still.\u00a0\"DSC_0296\"<\/a>\"DSC_0235\"<\/a>\"DSC_0244\"<\/a>There is something about photographing my children as they play that connects me to them, and to others in that moment. There is a desperation in it too, especially after I hold Emil’s heft in my arms every morning when he tromps upstairs to climb into bed with us and I am amazed, all over again, at his seeming to grow significantly larger every night while he sleeps (which, I suppose, he does).<\/p>\n

It’s like that with all of them. I want to freeze Emil’s sweetness, hold onto the last remnants of Oliver’s baby face, halt the lengthening of Milo’s long lean torso and growing muscles. They are in motion in all ways possible this summer, their growth and change occurring before my eyes.\u00a0\"DSC_0252\"<\/a>\"DSC_0322\"<\/a>\"DSC_0267\"<\/a>\"DSC_0210\"<\/a>\"DSC_0157\"<\/a>\"DSC_0177\"<\/a>\"DSC_0186\"<\/a>\"DSC_0201\"<\/a>\"DSC_0206\"<\/a>\"DSC_0143\"<\/a>This is the summer of motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They are perpetually moving, growing, changing, moving forward in this world, through time and space. To catch these moments and freeze them in time brings me a joy I can’t explain. I was there, this moment happened, and somehow it is now behind us now, yet here it is. In motion, yet still.\u00a0There is something … Continue reading “Summer of Motion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,100,187,185],"tags":[69,68,48,123],"class_list":["post-9645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-favorite-places","category-motherhood","category-stlouis","tag-brothers","tag-jump","tag-motherhood","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645","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=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9647,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions\/9647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}