{"id":11371,"date":"2013-11-13T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=11371"},"modified":"2013-11-13T22:58:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T03:58:12","slug":"mental-relaxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=11371","title":{"rendered":"Mental relaxation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been totally stressing about my solo day on Friday. It&#8217;s my third and therefore I should be more relaxed about it, but for some reason I was really struggling to get my mind around a writing lesson. My mentor and I discussed the idea and it all sounded good, in concept, but I couldn&#8217;t quite put it into a plan.&nbsp; Until this evening.<\/p>\n<p>I was working on it and researching and stressing this evening while Alan was watching a Star Trek with Lex.&nbsp; When the show was over I went upstairs to cuddle with Lex (our usual routine).&nbsp; He was unusually still and calm, no coughing or fidgeting, and we snuggled in together.&nbsp; It was so nice and peaceful and suddenly my lesson came to me!&nbsp; Clear and fun and obvious.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When it was time to go I told Lex what had happened and thanked him for helping me relax.&nbsp; He said, &#8220;OK, but I didn&#8217;t do it on purpose.&#8221;&nbsp; I told him it didn&#8217;t matter, his peacefulness was exactly what I needed.&nbsp; A little mental relaxation. I&#8217;m a lucky momma!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been totally stressing about my solo day on Friday. It&#8217;s my third and therefore I should be more relaxed about it, but for some reason I was really struggling to get my mind around a writing lesson. My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=11371\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,20],"class_list":["post-11371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lesson-planning","tag-lex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11373,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions\/11373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}