{"id":4,"date":"2010-02-11T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T19:09:11","slug":"genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_1413.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5\" title=\"DSC_1413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_1413-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_1413-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_1413-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the name lifeofannika implies, Annika was to be, for different reasons, the (an) only child.This was my decision, my intent, my desire; once she was born I never entertained another narrative.\u00a0 But then it suddenly came to me in December 2006 during a trip to Europe with Annika&#8217;s good friend Dylan: what about Annika&#8217;s desire?\u00a0 There wasn&#8217;t any hesitation on my part; I realized Annika would thrive with a sibling. This life changing decision &#8211; for Annika &#8211; was the obvious revelation which had escaped me thus far.\u00a0 For the first time I thought about the reality of being an only child from Annika&#8217;s perspective.\u00a0 Duh.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 12 months later, a sister &#8211; no, that would be too easy! &#8211; 2 sisters arrived.\u00a0 Annika was almost 5 years old, and like an adult she immediately adopted them as her responsibility.\u00a0 In the 2 years since she has acted consistently with a level of unselfishness, compassion, and nurturing that has continued to surprise me.<\/p>\n<p>This certainly won&#8217;t last &#8211; you can&#8217;t expect continued angelic behavior from a young girl as her sisters get bigger and more independent (stubborn), but watching the interactions of these 3 is really such a treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the name lifeofannika implies, Annika was to be, for different reasons, the (an) only child.This was my decision, my intent, my desire; once she was born I never entertained another narrative.\u00a0 But then it suddenly came to me in December 2006 during a trip to Europe with Annika&#8217;s good friend Dylan: what about Annika&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}