A little while ago I walked up the stairs behind Petra, on my way to make her an afternoon snack.\u00a0 As she does sometimes, she moved extremely slowly, bent over and getting her hands into it in such a way that she was practically crawling.<\/p>\n
After at least thirty seconds had passed and we hadn’t yet come halfway up the staircase, I tried to get her to speed things up.\u00a0 Channeling my best Jenny from Forrest Gump<\/i>, I encouraged her,\u00a0 “Run, Petra, Run!”<\/p>\n
“I am,” she answered in a voice oozing with all the exaggerated patience a three-year-old can muster.\u00a0 “Slow-motion running.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A little while ago I walked up the stairs behind Petra, on my way to make her an afternoon snack.\u00a0 As she does sometimes, she moved extremely slowly, bent over and getting her hands into it in such a way that she was practically crawling. After at least thirty seconds had passed and we hadn’t… Read More Clarifying<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}