{"id":2227,"date":"2009-05-27T22:45:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T04:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2013-05-18T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T21:43:19","slug":"butterfly-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/2009\/05\/27\/butterfly-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"butterfly mama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Brinley&#8217;s birthday gifts was a butterfly habitat. She thought it was some kind of cruel joke that it didn&#8217;t come with real butterflies already in it.\u00a0She was\u00a0quickly soothed when she stamped the envelope\u00a0and mailed away for her bugs in a box.<\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks later the fateful day <em>finally <\/em>arrived. Live bugs? Yick!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2226\" title=\"specialdelivery\" alt=\"specialdelivery\" src=\"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/specialdeliver.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"651\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello&#8230;ladies. There was some minor disappointment when the box revealed hairy little worms rather than big beautiful butterflies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2225\" title=\"helloladies\" alt=\"helloladies\" src=\"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/helloladies.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dot the I&#8217;s cross the T&#8217;s. All procedures complied with. She takes her role as butterfly mama very seriously.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2221\" title=\"takingitseriously\" alt=\"takingitseriously\" src=\"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/takingitseriously.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They might just be baby caterpillars now, but you don&#8217;t have to be too patient&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2222\" title=\"babies\" alt=\"babies\" src=\"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/babies.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"602\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re already fattening up and practicing hanging from the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2224\" title=\"gettingready\" alt=\"gettingready\" src=\"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gettingready.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"638\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve only had the little guys for a few days, and they have already quadrupled in size.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2223\" title=\"eyes\" alt=\"eyes\" src=\"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/eyes.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Time flies when you are having fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Brinley&#8217;s birthday gifts was a butterfly habitat. She thought it was some kind of cruel joke that it didn&#8217;t come with real butterflies already in it.\u00a0She was\u00a0quickly soothed when she stamped the envelope\u00a0and mailed away for her bugs in a box. A couple weeks later the fateful day finally arrived. Live bugs? Yick! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6595,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/6595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}