{"id":9159,"date":"2025-05-11T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2025-05-11T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:34:39","slug":"continuous-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2025\/05\/11\/continuous-awe\/","title":{"rendered":"continuous awe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the face he makes when I say don&#8217;t smile,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reinventing me in his image<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>even as I cast him in mine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/door-1-768x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Boy with closed eyes in front of a creepy door\" class=\"wp-image-9161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/door-1-768x1200.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/door-1-983x1536.jpg 983w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/door-1-1311x2048.jpg 1311w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/door-1-scaled.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m no stranger to the recursion of consciousness in nowness, but parenthood, POW. So much new, again, so many times. Trailing my little not-self, delighting in the chatter, content in the quiet, our long shadows overlapping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am in continuous awe I can love this much, laugh this much, keep learning all my life how to teach how to live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I love being his mom.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the face he makes when I say don&#8217;t smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shouts","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9166,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}