{"id":31,"date":"2006-03-13T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-04-25T11:31:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:31:04","slug":"cat-in-the-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Cat in the Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our jobs as parents is to provide interesting and educational stimulation for Leilani while she is awake. Music and singing only work when she is sleepy, but Mommy has found that rhyming stories really get her attention. She also looks at pictures in books, so we can read to her and she will sit through an entire book. This is very lucky for us, because with all the rain recently, we cannot go outside much, which is her preferred stimulation.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images\/Reading.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images\/Reading_sm.jpg' alt='Mommy reading a book with Leilani sitting on her lap and looking at the pictures.' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a recent rainy day, one of many, Mommy picked out the Dr. Seuss classic book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cat_in_the_Hat\">The Cat in the Hat<\/a>&#8220;, which coincidentally, is about staying inside on a rainy day:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images\/CatInTheHatScan.jpg' alt='Scan of the first page of Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat--used without permission, sorry' \/><\/p>\n<p>Leilani&#8217;s mom adds &#8211; much later: And that&#8217;s what I do on a rainy night &#8211; play with photoloops<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/looplets.filmloop.com\/flash\/looplet.swf\" quality=\"high\" scale=\"noscale\" salign=\"1\" flashvars=\"base=looplets.filmloop.com&#038;weblinkid=JbJ4CYnuFjFGcOm898kNa4oqw0sbwQ2\/&#038;incr=2\" name=\"looplet\" align=\"middle\" bgcolor=\"#333333\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our jobs as parents is to provide interesting and educational stimulation for Leilani while she is awake. Music and singing only work when she is sleepy, but Mommy has found that rhyming stories really get her attention. She&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}