{"id":986,"date":"2013-03-08T15:46:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T22:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2013-03-08T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T22:47:10","slug":"field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t hate me but&#8230;yes &#8211; I&#8217;m one of the &#8220;lucky&#8221; moms who got to chaperone the 5th grade field trip today.\u00a0 To the Museum of Nature and Science.\u00a0\u00a0To see the IMAX movie about the Ice Age.\u00a0 Boo-ya!!\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t get any better than that.<\/p>\n<p>True.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t a multi-million dollar software deal.\u00a0 But it did\u00a0result in the same level of utter exhaustion.\u00a0 So that&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n<p>Plus &#8211; it didn&#8217;t take me six months of work weeks and week-ends to prepare.\u00a0\u00a0So\u00a0that&#8217;s something as well.<\/p>\n<p>See?\u00a0 It&#8217;s coming up roses on this end.\u00a0 But like I said, don&#8217;t be a hater.<\/p>\n<p>Doin&#8217; the field trip thANG is\u00a0a rite of passage for us\u00a0new stay at homers.\u00a0\u00a0Just trying to earn our place in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And that need for a nap at 3:30 in the afternoon on a Friday?\u00a0 That, my friends, is\u00a0the sign of a life well-lived.\u00a0 Now don&#8217;t bother me.\u00a0 I gotta close my eyes for a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t hate me but&#8230;yes &#8211; I&#8217;m one of the &#8220;lucky&#8221; moms who got to chaperone the 5th grade field trip today.\u00a0 To the Museum of Nature and Science.\u00a0\u00a0To see the IMAX movie about the Ice Age.\u00a0 Boo-ya!!\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t get any better than that. True.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t a multi-million dollar software deal.\u00a0 But it did\u00a0result in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}