{"id":477,"date":"2009-10-23T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2009-10-23T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T12:19:00","slug":"grown-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Grown Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/SuGgmCh82jI\/AAAAAAAAAKo\/gOnlZS2SDqY\/s1600-h\/tony6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/SuGgmCh82jI\/AAAAAAAAAKo\/gOnlZS2SDqY\/s400\/tony6.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>He&#8217;s actually a grown man now, one I am proud of. I know this, I recognize this &#8212; the time flies and it&#8217;s hard to believe that he is no longer my sweet rockin&#8217; boy. Is this how my parents feel about me &#8212; that I am still their girl even though I am a grown woman of 51?<\/p>\n<p>I am still so smitten with my kids, their charm, their humor, their humanity, the privilege of watching them grow into adults I enjoy being around. I am letting go &#8212; slowly, finding my way back to a life beyond motherhood, but man I cherish those memories like nobody&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s actually a grown man now, one I am proud of. I know this, I recognize this &#8212; the time flies and it&#8217;s hard to believe that he is no longer my sweet rockin&#8217; boy. Is this how my parents feel about me &#8212; that I am still their girl even though I am a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grown Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}