{"id":2062,"date":"2009-06-11T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2009-06-11T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T12:44:00","slug":"fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"fireflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/3617155204\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3325\/3617155204_055af134e0_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/3617155204\/\">fireflies<\/a><br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/93468786@N00\/\">emisanboo<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Em was brushing her teeth yesterday evening and looked out the window.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Fireflies!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>She was so excited.  We went out and caught them in our hands, and then got a mason jar.  We both poked some holds in the lid with a screwdriver.  Em wanted to catch ten, but they kept trying to crawl out of the jar when the lid was opened, so I suggested we just catch three.  We settled on four.<\/p>\n<p>Em brought them in and went into her closet and closed the door.  The fireflies didn&#8217;t want to light up.  We opened a window and set them free.  We&#8217;ll try again tonight, weather permitting, and maybe put a little grass in the bottom of the jar to make them feel more at home.<\/p>\n<p>I told Em how my mother&#8217;s birthday is in June, and she always used to  look at the fireflies as a happy sign that her birthday was coming.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasant evening during a time when things haven&#8217;t been going so great for Em.  Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s a corner turned.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>firefliesOriginally uploaded by emisanboo Em was brushing her teeth yesterday evening and looked out the window. &#8220;Fireflies!&#8221; She was so excited. We went out and caught them in our hands, and then got a mason jar. We both poked some holds in the lid with a screwdriver. Em wanted to catch ten, but they kept [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062"}],"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=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}