{"id":574,"date":"2011-06-26T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2011\/06\/mini-mm-gathering\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T20:45:00","slug":"mini-mm-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2011\/06\/mini-mm-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini MM gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen from Maine was in town visiting Carroll who lives 35 minutes from me. Colleen from Eau Claire with friends near by planned a trip down so it is time for a mini March Mommy Get together. <\/p>\n<p>Last year it was just Carroll, Karen and I but this year I needed to bring Hollace (she was in Fort Wayne last year at that time) and Hollace needed to bring her art stuff. <\/p>\n<p>I felt especially quiet for the most part just listening to everyone talk. I didn&#8217;t really have anything to contribute to the conversation and when I wanted to chime in, I couldn&#8217;t find a place to jump in.<\/p>\n<p>Hollace and Shannon (Carroll&#8217;s daughter) hit it off. They both draw a lot and had that in common. My iPad was used extensively by the girls. I am sure Carroll is thrilled that now her daughter wants an expensive tech toy.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a nice gathering.<\/p>\n<p>The other day I seen a sign at a car wash (where I look for their constantly changing witty signs) that hit close to home for me. It said, &#8220;Just because people don&#8217;t understand you, doesn&#8217;t mean you are artist&#8221;. I feel like I hid behind that statement a bit.<\/p>\n<p><insert photo of MM gathering><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen from Maine was in town visiting Carroll who lives 35 minutes from me. Colleen from Eau Claire with friends near by planned a trip down so it is time for a mini March Mommy Get together. Last year it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2011\/06\/mini-mm-gathering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}