{"id":4433,"date":"2010-08-12T13:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T18:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2010-08-12T13:56:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T18:56:38","slug":"reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=4433","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My friend, Steve, at <a href=\"http:\/\/tricuspid.wordpress.com\/\">The Funky Heart<\/a> makes a guest appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/brokenheartsbigbend.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/surviving-congenital-heart-defect.html\">Broken Hearts of the Big Bend<\/a>, a CHD blog. \u00a0It is a sobering and insightful article. \u00a0 I never thought the day would come, but it is so easy as a mom, to get comfortable and forget about my child&#8217;s special heart. \u00a0I&#8217;m so thankful that others have walked this walk and can keep me <em>and Mary Clare<\/em> in check and remind me that I am a heart mom, not simply a mom. \u00a0I must be mindful for her health and be thankful for every single minute that God allows me to spend with her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>&#8220;My \u201csecret\u201d to living so long with a congenital heart defect could very well surprise you. To live with a heart defect, you have to first make peace with the fact that your defective heart will one day give out.&#8221; <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Steve Catoe, The Funky Heart<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Steve, at The Funky Heart makes a guest appearance on Broken Hearts of the Big Bend, a CHD blog. \u00a0It is a sobering and insightful article. \u00a0 I never thought the day would come, but it is so easy as a mom, to get comfortable and forget about my child&#8217;s special heart. \u00a0I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4442,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}