{"id":776,"date":"2007-03-08T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T23:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2007-03-08T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T23:41:23","slug":"our-own-american-idol-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Our Own American Idol Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy singing. I have been singing for as long as I can remember. My mom has tapes of me at three years old singing <em>Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer<\/em>. I didn&#8217;t have the words quite right, singing, &#8220;then one froggy Christmas eve,&#8221; but it had a lot of heart and wasn&#8217;t bad for a preschooler.<\/p>\n<p>When Adrianna was born, I loved rocking her to sleep and singing to her. She seemed soothed by my voice.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays though, I have a little critic on my hands.<\/p>\n<p>Some days my little critic is like Paula, happily smiling and dancing while I belt out <em>The Bear Went Over the Mountain<\/em> or <em>The Ants Go Marching One by One<\/em>. She will often ask me to &#8220;ting&#8221; again when the song is done, handing me a stuffed animal to dance with.<\/p>\n<p>Other days, she is like Simon Cowell. Though she never criticizes me and tells me it was only an &#8220;average karaoke performance,&#8221; that I &#8220;belong on a cruise ship,&#8221; or that I am the worst singer she has ever heard, she still gets her point across by putting her hand across my mouth or saying, &#8220;Mommy!&#8221; in a tone of voice that conveys it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy singing. I have been singing for as long as I can remember. My mom has tapes of me at three years old singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I didn&#8217;t have the words quite right, singing, &#8220;then one froggy Christmas eve,&#8221; but it had a lot of heart and wasn&#8217;t bad for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrianna","category-our-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}