{"id":1403,"date":"2011-12-25T19:57:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T02:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2011-12-25T19:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T02:57:57","slug":"sleep-well-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/sleep-well-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Well Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>A Jon Post<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m on a couch, thinking about this year, this Christmas, my home and my family. My daughter had been crying in her bed for 15 minutes, hoping that her voice would outlast the time I could resist my compassion getting the better of my parenting technique. It did and I spent the following 15 minutes snuggling with her in my bed, calming her breathing, rubbing her back and kissing her head.<\/p>\n<p>Meh\u2026 it\u2019s Christmas. She can have this one.<\/p>\n<p>So I held her and put off writing this because I\u2019d rather she know her daddy loves her than know that she needs to go to bed on time.<\/p>\n<p>She cried, I whispered.<\/p>\n<p>She whimpered, I kissed.<\/p>\n<p>She squirmed, I hugged.<\/p>\n<p>And so we found ourselves lying next to each other. She curled up into my arms and rested her head against my chest. I laid my hand on her back and breathed deep and slow, encouraging her to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>She fell asleep.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter lay there asleep in my arms and I couldn\u2019t think of a better Christmas present.<\/p>\n<p>To those who read this blog and have children, hug and kiss your kids to bed tonight. To those who don\u2019t, remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans+8:15&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\">your daddy loves you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep well tonight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1404\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hellers2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1404\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1404 \" title=\"My Christmas Presents\" src=\"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hellers2012-1024x689.jpg\" alt=\"My Christmas Presents\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hellers2012-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hellers2012-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Christmas Presents<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jon Post I\u2019m on a couch, thinking about this year, this Christmas, my home and my family. My daughter had been crying in her bed for 15 minutes, hoping that her voice would outlast the time I could resist my compassion getting the better of my parenting technique. It did and I spent the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}