{"id":332,"date":"2015-08-18T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=332"},"modified":"2015-10-21T06:07:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:07:40","slug":"imperfection-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Imperfection.  Everywhere."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Photo-on-2015-08-18-at-17.28.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-333\" alt=\"Photo on 2015-08-18 at 17.28\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Photo-on-2015-08-18-at-17.28-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Photo-on-2015-08-18-at-17.28-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Photo-on-2015-08-18-at-17.28-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Photo-on-2015-08-18-at-17.28.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday I helped to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Gordon_(child_advocate)\">Mary Gordon<\/a>\u00a0to our fair city. \u00a0She was talking about her magnificent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsofempathy.org\/\">Roots of Empathy<\/a> project, which we&#8217;d dearly love to see back in Christchurch (funders? \u00a0philanthropists? \u00a0Kei hea a koutou?)<\/p>\n<p>Seems to me that the Roots of Empathy NZ tour is well timed: check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/national\/281428\/schools-'not-resourced-for-violent-kids'\">this news item <\/a>from late last week.<\/p>\n<p>There is a new newsletter (new news?) from the Brainwave Trust, featuring an article I wrote, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainwave.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Embracing-Imperfection.pdf\">&#8220;Embracing Imperfection&#8221;. \u00a0You can read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My pals at OhBaby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/0-16367\/how-motherhood-exhaustion-can-actually-create-beauty-in-your-life.html\">shared this article with me<\/a>, about surfing the tide of motherhood exhaustion (cos ya might as well embrace &#8230;), and I know it&#8217;s 5 years old now, but I still reckon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationcounts.govt.nz\/publications\/ECE\/98894\/Executive_Summary\">Sally Peters&#8217; report for the Ministry of Education<\/a> is one of the best places to gather info about successful Transition to School.<\/p>\n<p>That might have to do for now. \u00a0It&#8217;s dinner time. x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I helped to welcome Mary Gordon\u00a0to our fair city. \u00a0She was talking about her magnificent Roots of Empathy project, which we&#8217;d dearly love to see back in Christchurch (funders? \u00a0philanthropists? \u00a0Kei hea a koutou?) Seems to me that the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=332\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,14,19,11,7,27,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}