{"id":1480,"date":"2009-12-31T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2010-01-01T06:21:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T13:21:21","slug":"in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/31\/in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, <b>I took lots of naps.<\/b> I watched my body change before my very eyes. I wore stretchable jeans, loose tops and <a href=\"http:\/\/piperlime.gap.com\/browse\/product.do?cid=4016&#038;vid=0&#038;pid=446593&#038;scid=446593002\" target=\"_new\">Birkenstocks<\/a>. I ate a lot of In-N-Out burgers and Heath Bar ice cream. I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/ellen.warnerbros.com\" target=\"_new\">daytime TV<\/a>. I did yoga. I waddled. I woke up multiple times in the middle of many nights, tossing and turning and peeing. <b>I gave birth to a beautiful, remarkable son.<\/b> I had major surgery and was humbled by the slowness of recovery. I watched my body change once more. <b>I laughed a lot.<\/b> (I had to.) I moved into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramahughes.com\">our<\/a> first house, a Craftsman. I learned there&#8217;s quite a difference between living in a house and living in an apartment. <b>I made a home.<\/b> I was courted all over again by my darling husband. I swooned. I stayed in California, traveling only as far as Monterey, but had many local adventures. I watched a lot of movies, read a few books and wrote a handful of letters. I took hundreds of photos. <b>I said hundreds of prayers.<\/b> I missed my grandma. I learned to work a letterpress. I exhibited my work in a museum. I learned not to hold on too tightly to wishes and plans, but to make room for mistakes and surprises. <b>I was pleasantly surprised.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, I took lots of naps. I watched my body change before my very eyes. I wore stretchable jeans, loose tops and Birkenstocks. I ate a lot of In-N-Out burgers and Heath Bar ice cream. I watched daytime TV. I did yoga. I waddled. I woke up multiple times in the middle of many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}