{"id":1419,"date":"2011-11-01T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T07:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2011-11-01T08:54:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T07:54:18","slug":"early-mornings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"early mornings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And if the lights draw you in<br \/>\nAnd the dark can take you down<br \/>\nAnd love can mend your heart<br \/>\nBut only if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re lucky now<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Ryan Adams, Lucky Now<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I remember days when I couldn&#8217;t fall asleep without music. I&#8217;d put on &#8220;Anna Begins&#8221;, &#8220;Round Here&#8221; or some other Counting Crow song. I had them on repeat while I slowly drifted away. Whenever I get up early with Mikko I put the music on &#8211; Bruce, Tracy Chapman, U2, The Stones, Ryan Adams. He&#8217;d carefully listen to the first chords and then start to wave his hands. Sometimes I pick him up, hug him and then we&#8217;d slowly dance. As a parent you wish these moments would last forever but they don&#8217;t. The good news is &#8211; they just make room for the next moment. Love is not a single epic second. It&#8217;s all these small little moments when &#8211; though he does not speak yet &#8211; he knows that he will be forever loved.<\/p>\n<p>I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And if the lights draw you in And the dark can take you down And love can mend your heart But only if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re lucky now &#8211; Ryan Adams, Lucky Now I remember days when I couldn&#8217;t fall asleep without music. I&#8217;d put on &#8220;Anna Begins&#8221;, &#8220;Round Here&#8221; or some other Counting Crow song. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miracle-drug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}