{"id":4101,"date":"2020-03-28T02:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T07:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2020-03-28T02:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T07:02:29","slug":"if-the-wild-bird-could-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/28\/if-the-wild-bird-could-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Wild Bird Could Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sleeping in this morning was pretty typical for how it&#8217;s been the past couple weeks. I woke up for a while in the morning and couldn&#8217;t sleep, then eventually fell back asleep until close to noon. I got up to make breakfast for the kids that were still asleep and chopped up some bacon for eggs, Rotel, and rice. About the time I finished cracking thirteen eggs into the pan, Autumn came around the corner with a comically large pizza that you only see in cartoons. Their father was supposed to bring that for dinner so Summer and I could have our steak dinner together, but evidently plans changed.<\/p>\n<p>I ate my share of the rice and eggs by myself and played some <em>Overwatch<\/em> until Noah was ready to go by Western Sizzlin&#8217; to pick up his paycheck. We stopped to see Summer on the way out, then went by my house so I could take care of the usual things. Then it was back up to Summer&#8217;s to sit in on the kids until she got home.<\/p>\n<p>Eaddie spent all day cleaning her room while Autumn and Noah sat in front of the TV. Eaddie got out a tiny bow and arrows, and I lost one over the fence. I wandered around through the foliage and down the road to look for it, but couldn&#8217;t find it for all the brush. I headed back empty-handed and eventually got to prepping potatoes for baking. Summer and I were going to have our steaks.<\/p>\n<p>When she got home, I started the steaks and asparagus on the grill, and we had a quiet dinner. Eaddie came and sat with us and had some as well, and Autumn and Noah picked at leftovers. Summer went to bed pretty soon after dinner, so I hung out with Eaddie for the rest of the evening. She had pretty much finished cleaning and rearranging her bedroom, but I helped get power to where she needed it. She had a CD player that wouldn&#8217;t work, so I took it apart twice to find both places it was assembled incorrectly, and got it to work.<\/p>\n<p><em>And she knows all the ways of the wind.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleeping in this morning was pretty typical for how it&#8217;s been the past couple weeks. I woke up for a while in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,29,36],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-anger-management","tag-family","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}