{"id":3846,"date":"2017-06-30T20:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T00:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2017-11-09T23:17:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T03:17:52","slug":"told-driftwood-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3846","title":{"rendered":"When I Told Them About Driftwood Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I told them it would be cool, they were skeptical.<\/p>\n

When I told them this would be the plus side of being dragged along on a business trip, they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy it.<\/p>\n

When I told them it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of my favorite beaches, they were unimpressed.<\/p>\n

When I told them their car-weary souls would revive upon inhaling the sweet Georgia sea air, they sighed.<\/p>\n

When I told them they could climb as long and as far as their limbs would take them, they moved out of the car with pointed lethargy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And then I stopped telling them anything, because they were gone, gone, and gone,<\/p>\n

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\n\"\"<\/a>and we spent the better part of two hours trying to keep up with them, listening for their calls and their laughter, doing a head count now and again: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One head, two heads,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6wait, where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our firstborn? He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wearing red. He should be easy to find.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d realize I was looking low when I should have been looking high, and there he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d wonder if someday, years from now, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be the one doing the telling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I told them it would be cool, they were skeptical. When I told them this would be the plus side of being dragged along on a business trip, they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy it. When I told them it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of my favorite beaches, they were unimpressed. When I told them their car-weary souls would revive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[1555,421,105,100,1281,2203],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-island-adventures","tag-island-kids","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-jekyll-island","tag-love-the-georgia-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}