{"id":167,"date":"2009-08-29T18:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T23:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annakatedonovan.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2009-08-29T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T23:16:11","slug":"167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"no surprises here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing surprises me any more.\u00a0 Wait, that&#8217;s not true.\u00a0 &#8220;Octomom&#8221; surprised the heck out of me.\u00a0 Did she forget that she already had <strong>EIGHT<\/strong> children?\u00a0 But that&#8217;s beside the point. The point is that in the course of my life, I have been through so much that it takes a lot to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">really<\/span> surprise me.<\/p>\n<p>Take the last 15 minutes, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Robert was on the porch reading his book.\u00a0 I was in the kitchen putting dinner together.\u00a0 The girls were all watching a movie.<\/p>\n<p>I got dinner in the oven and came in the living room to sit down with the girls for a few minutes.\u00a0 Laura was standing by my purse trying to be invisible.\u00a0 I said &#8220;what are you doing Laura?&#8221;\u00a0 and she made the face.\u00a0 The &#8220;I&#8217;m doing something I know I&#8217;m not supposed to be doing but maybe you won&#8217;t notice&#8221; face.\u00a0 She had found a peppermint buried in the bottom of my purse.\u00a0 She had taken it out of the wrapper, licked it and tried unsuccessfully to put it back.\u00a0 More than once.\u00a0 Judging by the stickiness of the mint, she had done this many, many times.\u00a0 The mint was covered in lint and random crumbs from the bottom of my use-it-for-everything purse.\u00a0 YUCK.<\/p>\n<p>Was I surprised?\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Disgusted?\u00a0 Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Just another page in the book of ways to strengthen your child&#8217;s immune system&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Nothing surprises me any more.\u00a0 Wait, that&#8217;s not true.\u00a0 &#8220;Octomom&#8221; surprised the heck out of me.\u00a0 Did she forget that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5,69,70],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","tag-laura","tag-peppermint","tag-purse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}