{"id":60,"date":"2005-07-04T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whaleylife.com\/blog\/archives\/60"},"modified":"2006-07-22T20:54:20","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T20:54:20","slug":"112050639043314151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/archives\/60","title":{"rendered":"My boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, I wanted to hold my little boy on my lap and tell him about You.<br \/>\nSince I can&#8217;t do that, will You hold him on Your lap and tell him about me?<br \/>\n~Anonymous<\/p>\n<p>Noah would have been 2 months old yesterday. Amazing the time has gone that fast, and somehow it seems like a year ago since I held him. Alyssa and I have been letting balloons go to Noah almost daily now. We got the idea when I saw hundreds of balloons lifted into the air at a church function. I was imagining them making their way all the way up to Noah. A friend of mine bought me a helium tank so we can make our own balloons whenever we want. Alyssa asks,&#8221;Make a balloon for Noah?&#8221; So she picks out the color she wants, we blow it up, and we walk outside and say &#8220;Here you go Noah&#8221;, then let them go. Alyssa watches for a bit then forgets. I, on the other hand, stare into the sky and watch that balloon for as long as I can. And wonder if it could actually make it up to my Noah. Wonder if he looks down on us and joins in the fun. Wonder if he knows that I miss him so much.  I ask Alyssa if Noah is happy in heaven and she says &#8220;Yeah!&#8221;. But you know how smart kids are, when I asked Blakely the same thing she said, &#8220;No.&#8221; I said, &#8220;Why is he not happy?&#8221; Blakely said, &#8220;He misses his sister.&#8221; Amazing that four year olds understand the pain too. <\/p>\n<p>I miss you Noah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, I wanted to hold my little boy on my lap and tell him about You. Since I can&#8217;t do that, will You hold him on Your lap and tell him about me? ~Anonymous Noah would have been 2 months &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/archives\/60\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qUqt-Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}