{"id":20,"date":"2006-04-07T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/i-am-doing-it\/"},"modified":"2006-04-07T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T18:14:02","slug":"i-am-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/i-am-doing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I AM DOING IT&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite parts in the book _Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason_ is Bridget&#8217;s account of writing up her Colin Firth interview. After days of being nagged by her supervisor and avoiding the project through a series of snacks, naps, and smokes,<!--more--> she finally gets down to business about 45 minutes before her deadline. Her diary entry at this time reads simply: &#8220;I AM DOING IT.&#8221; Victory for Bridget!<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking about this in connection with labor, delivery, and caring for our baby. Each step of the way will have its own challenges, and I think it will feel good to step back for a moment and say &#8220;I AM DOING IT&#8221; when I make it through a difficult contraction, overcome a breastfeeding struggle, soothe baby&#8217;s cries, or change a particularly nasty diaper. Victory for Ann!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite parts in the book _Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason_ is Bridget&#8217;s account of writing up her Colin Firth interview. After days of being nagged by her supervisor and avoiding the project through a series of snacks, naps, and smokes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}