{"id":16559,"date":"2018-09-26T23:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T23:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/?p=16559"},"modified":"2018-10-01T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:28:42","slug":"grouchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/grouchy\/","title":{"rendered":"grouchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The night before Mary&#8217;s birthday Lydia insisted on finishing a stuffed animal she was sewing for Mary. Abe promised her the other day that I would help her finish. I really, really wish I had been more gracious about helping Lydia finish this sweet project. Instead, I was a grouchy, snapping person who took over the project and just did it all myself so we could get to bed before midnight. While I sewed I made Lydia practice. I was quite ridiculous.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16542\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16542\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16542\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0838-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0838-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0838-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0838-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0838.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abe told me to smile. I was, er, excessively annoyed and this is the very best I could manage. The minute he took the picture I went right back to scowling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16541\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16541\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0836-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0836-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0836-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0836-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0836.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abe wrapped presents and put up the birthday banner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16543\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16543\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0840-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0840-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0840-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0840-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0840.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia dutifully practiced while I sewed up her animal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night before Mary&#8217;s birthday Lydia insisted on finishing a stuffed animal she was sewing for Mary. Abe promised her the other day that I would help her finish. I really, really wish I had been more gracious about helping Lydia finish this sweet project. Instead, I was a grouchy, snapping person who took over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/grouchy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">grouchy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16560,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions\/16560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}