{"id":408,"date":"2009-12-12T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2009\/awe-and-gratitude-of-an-immense-kind\/"},"modified":"2009-12-12T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T17:35:00","slug":"awe-and-gratitude-of-an-immense-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/awe-and-gratitude-of-an-immense-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Awe and gratitude of an immense kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/SyPFm0HGE6I\/AAAAAAAAAgE\/G39zP3WtHQ8\/s1600-h\/bump.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/SyPFm0HGE6I\/AAAAAAAAAgE\/G39zP3WtHQ8\/s320\/bump.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Four years, almost exactly to the day, this picture was taken by my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/salliglover.moonfruit.com\/\">Salli<\/a>. I asked Salli to do this photo shoot because I wanted to cherish forever, in my heart, mind and pictures, the utter amazing-ness of having another human come to life, grow and be carried inside me. I am still in awe, four years on. I cannot get over the fact that she is. That she is here. That she is here with us. I am full of gratitude for the gift of this precious girl, my firstborn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years, almost exactly to the day, this picture was taken by my friend Salli. I asked Salli to do this photo shoot because I wanted to cherish forever, in my heart, mind and pictures, the utter amazing-ness of having another human come to life, grow and be carried inside me. I am still in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts-and-reflections","category-parenting-and-family-life","category-soulful-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}