{"id":1617,"date":"2008-05-11T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2008-05-11T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:07:00","slug":"my-mom-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"My mom has&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>skated with the Ice Capades for a newspaper story\n<li>traveled to Russia, France, Mexico, Japan, England, and more\n<li>had several concussions as a result of pursuing her hobbies\n<li>made shoes last longer with cardboard stuffed in the soles as a child\n<li>carried a knife as protection when rescuing kids from a dangerous situation\n<li>yelled expletives at a newsroom co-worker during a plane crash crisis\n<li>randomly broken into a fake foreign language at the airport on several occasions\n<li>faced a life-threatening illness with dignity, grace, and good humor\n<li>taught adults to read\n<li>taken in teenage siblings when she was a young newlywed\n<li>ridden along with the police\n<li>never broken a promise to her child\n<\/ul>\n<p>I cannot imagine a better role model or a more loving mother.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day, Mom.  You&#8217;re a fantastic person and I&#8217;m so lucky to have you.<br \/>\n<lj-embed id=\"11\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Mom rides the zip line at Em&#8217;s birthday party, 2005.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skated with the Ice Capades for a newspaper story traveled to Russia, France, Mexico, Japan, England, and more had several concussions as a result of pursuing her hobbies made shoes last longer with cardboard stuffed in the soles as a child carried a knife as protection when rescuing kids from a dangerous situation yelled expletives [&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":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}