{"id":389,"date":"2010-01-13T23:16:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T03:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2010-01-13T23:16:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T03:16:03","slug":"the-little-elfman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"The Little Elfman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First let me quickly report that we received her results from the liver planel and everything was absolutely fine!<\/p>\n<p>And onto the story:<\/p>\n<p>We started reading to Adela at lunch and dinner again as an old feeding therapy trick to encourage those less than favorite foods \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Daddy started with two new story books and was doing well.\u00a0 One day at lunch she wanted me to read so I ran up and grabbed a poetry book (A child&#8217;s book of verse) that Gigi gave her.\u00a0 After two days she wanted daddy to switch to it at dinner too.\u00a0 She gets very excited about her poetry book and we&#8217;ve been going strong on it for over a week. She remembers titles and information about a number of the poems.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to share one of the poems I like and you may see why<\/p>\n<p>The Little Elfman\u00a0 &#8211; by John Kendrick Bangs<\/p>\n<p>I met a little elfman once,<br \/>\nDown where the lilies blow.<br \/>\nI asked him why he was so small,<br \/>\nAnd why he didn&#8217;t grow.<\/p>\n<p>He slightly frowned and with his eye<br \/>\nHe looked me through and through &#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m just as big for me,&#8221; said he,<br \/>\n&#8220;As you are big for you!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First let me quickly report that we received her results from the liver planel and everything was absolutely fine! And onto the story: We started reading to Adela at lunch and dinner again as an old feeding therapy trick to encourage those less than favorite foods \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Daddy started with two new story books and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pviUd-6h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}