define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":1566,"date":"2009-08-03T20:06:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T10:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2009-08-03T20:06:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T10:06:41","slug":"its-back-to-work-i-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/1566\/","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s back to work i go .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>last week, was my first week back at work after having our little Jovie. this time it went much better &#8211; no crazy hormones and the workload was just as big (with over 3,500 emails to read\/check\/reply) but i was able to just get on with it and <em>work<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>i see it how it is, more clearly than i did before. work is work. i need to work to help put food on the table, and as much i would adore being a stay at home mum, i am lucky to have the support of family to look after the kids and i&#8217;m lucky to have a good job that doesn&#8217;t take me away from my kids for more than i need to be. <\/p>\n<p>i think new mums often grapple with the decision on what is best for their family and feel guilty with the decision to go back to work. going through it a second time, i&#8217;m more set up to know how to pace myself, to not guilt trip myself, to use my quality time time with the kids to the max and to know that i&#8217;m still a good mum, who just happens to work full time also. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last week, was my first week back at work after having our little Jovie. this time it went much better &#8211; no crazy hormones and the workload was just as big (with over 3,500 emails to read\/check\/reply) but i was able to just get on with it and work. i see it how it is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}