{"id":881,"date":"2007-11-07T10:15:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T14:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/?p=881"},"modified":"2007-11-07T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T14:15:48","slug":"the-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"The Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With my girls, you never know what the day will bring.  Some days, they rise from bed grumpy and obstinate.  Other days, they are sunshine and happiness.  Today, I would have to categorize them as barely controlled balls of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Each morning, Leina wakes at 7am and runs into our room to roust Kevin who heads downstairs to start breakfast.  I usually lie in bed another 20-30 minutes gathering my strength and giving Kevin some quality time with his girls.  So when I do lumber down the stair around 7:30am, I never know what will greet me.  This morning, however, as I lay in bed fortifying myself, I could hear the distinct sounds of pounding feet, shrieks, and giggles coming from below.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I found.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XCen3jL3Grk\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And they haven&#8217;t stopped since.  I&#8217;m thinking they are liking the extra hour of sleep in the morning.  Either that or they have begun sneaking sips from my coffee cup when I am not looking.  Wouldn&#8217;t you love to have this much energy before 8am?  I know I would.<\/p>\n<p>(As you can see from the clip, Kevin has recovered from his horrible day.  Baby kisses can erase just about all forms of heartache thankfully!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my girls, you never know what the day will bring. Some days, they rise from bed grumpy and obstinate. Other days, they are sunshine and happiness. Today, I would have to categorize them as barely controlled balls of energy. Each morning, Leina wakes at 7am and runs into our room to roust Kevin who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-ed","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}