{"id":14383,"date":"2011-12-18T22:22:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T03:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=14383"},"modified":"2011-12-18T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T03:34:10","slug":"would-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=14383","title":{"rendered":"Would you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity
\nTo seize everything you ever wanted\u2026 one moment
\nWould you capture it or just let it slip?
\nEminem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our friend is about to become a mother – it looks like this adoption is going to happen – and as I write, I’ve just tucked Tin into bed. As a single mother of the last week, I can tell you that my friend has her work cut out for her, all those wonderful plays, art exhibits, movies, concerts, lectures, dinners, cocktail parties – forgetaboutit – she won’t see them anymore. <\/p>\n

I used to marvel how mothers or fathers would tell me they had not read a book in a long time other than the Cat in the Hat – ahem – I have memorized the entire Seuss oeuvre. <\/p>\n

But my friend, as I said, is a mother waiting to happen, and having been one myself I have to say that when the opportunity presented itself to be a mother at 50 years of age, I knew I had one shot, one opportunity. And now on the other side of that decision, I think to myself again I don’t believe in coincidences or accidents, another cliche is validated – the most rewarding and challenging thing I endeavor to do. <\/p>\n

I’m excited to meet the little baby boy who is going to make my friend a mother. And to meet her after the fact as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted\u2026 one moment Would you capture it or just let it slip? Eminem Our friend is about to become a mother – it looks like this adoption is going to happen – and as I write, I’ve just tucked Tin into bed. As a single mother of the last week, I can tell you that my friend has her work cut out… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3JZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14385,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14383\/revisions\/14385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}