{"id":7580,"date":"2011-05-08T03:15:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2011-05-09T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:05:55","slug":"mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bouguereau-mothers-day1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7583\" title=\"bouguereau mothers day\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bouguereau-mothers-day1.jpg?resize=410%2C680\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bouguereau-mothers-day1.jpg?w=410&amp;ssl=1 410w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bouguereau-mothers-day1.jpg?resize=180%2C300&amp;ssl=1 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> This Mothers Day I am reminded of <strong>The Mommy Exchange<\/strong> I outlined last year.  It&#8217;s a&nbsp;\u00a0really&nbsp;\u00a0great system, now more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>I think of my commenters here as my babies, even if you&#8217;re older than me. You&#8217;ve all given me so much comfort and laughter, you&#8217;ve made me feel special and you make me so proud of you. On the other hand, many of you have been like mommies when that&#8217;s what I needed. Sometimes you&#8217;ve got to make your own family as you go along.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to tuck you all in bed and kiss you good night. Then maybe you can tuck me in. Go and read about the Mommy Exchange <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/2010\/05\/08\/the-mommy-exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> if you forgot it.  Tonight my darling friend <strong>Summer<\/strong> wrote to me: &#8220;<em>Happy Mothers day, Mommy! Love, &nbsp;\u00a0Mommy<\/em>.&#8221;  It works! xoxo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/me-and-the-sons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7588\" title=\"me and the sons\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/me-and-the-sons.jpg?resize=502%2C378\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/me-and-the-sons.jpg?w=502&amp;ssl=1 502w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/me-and-the-sons.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Mothers Day I am reminded of The Mommy Exchange I outlined last year. It&#8217;s a&nbsp;\u00a0really&nbsp;\u00a0great system, now more than ever. I think of my commenters here as my babies, even if you&#8217;re older than me. You&#8217;ve all given me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/mothers-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[321,6],"tags":[229,739,65],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1Yg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}