{"id":4760,"date":"2007-05-17T21:35:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T04:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/2007\/the-power-of-books\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T21:35:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T04:35:35","slug":"the-power-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/the-power-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"the power of books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought these two were going to beat me this afternoon&#8230;we could not get them to sit in the same place at the same time.  So I did what I like to do in situations like that&#8211;feign defeat.  Let them think they&#8217;ve won.  Let them run and play and find little things that capture their attention&#8230;all the while doing recon.  And when I realized that they could both be captivated by this little board book, my heart went all pitter-patter.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers reading together.<\/p>\n<p>Probably the sweetest thing in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/_mg_3237blackandwhitepreview.jpg\" alt=\"_mg_3237blackandwhitepreview.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/_mg_3241colorpreview.jpg\" alt=\"_mg_3241colorpreview.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought these two were going to beat me this afternoon&#8230;we could not get them to sit in the same place at the same time. So I did what I like to do in situations like that&#8211;feign defeat. Let them think they&#8217;ve won. Let them run and play and find little things that capture their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-portrait-photographer-colorado-springs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}