{"id":476,"date":"2014-05-11T09:07:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T14:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/?p=476"},"modified":"2016-05-07T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T20:05:46","slug":"love-makes-a-mother-writing-for-deeply-rooted-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/2014\/05\/11\/love-makes-a-mother-writing-for-deeply-rooted-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Makes a Mother: Writing for Deeply Rooted Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deeplyrootedmag.com\/blogs\/blog\/14092573-love-makes-a-mother\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-479 size-full\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #777777; resize: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lovemakesamother_1024x1024-e1399817136513.jpg?resize=750%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Love Makes a Mother\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my first Mother&#8217;s Day with Ella in my arms&#8211;last year at this time I was waddling like a duck with Ella still tucked away inside of me (let&#8217;s be\u00a0honest:\u00a0&#8220;squished&#8221; is probably a more realistic term than &#8220;tucked&#8221;). I was three days away from her due date and praying for a Mother&#8217;s Day baby. But\u00a0Ella was in no rush; she took her sweet time and was born five days past her due date on our seventh wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Mother&#8217;s Day is a joyful day for\u00a0some women and a difficult day for others. For many women, the day holds a mix of emotions. I would love to have you join me at <a href=\"http:\/\/deeplyrootedmag.com\/blogs\/blog\/14092573-love-makes-a-mother\">Deeply Rooted Magazine<\/a> today as I share about what truly makes someone a mother: <em>love<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So to every woman who has mothered someone\u00a0&#8211;physically, adoptively, or spiritually&#8211;thank you. You are reflecting the greatest Love, Christ himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first Mother&#8217;s Day with Ella in my arms&#8211;last year at this time I was waddling like a duck with Ella still tucked away inside of me (let&#8217;s be\u00a0honest:\u00a0&#8220;squished&#8221; is probably a more realistic term than &#8220;tucked&#8221;). I was three days away from her due date and praying for a Mother&#8217;s Day baby. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,4,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby","category-god","category-guest-post","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}