{"id":303,"date":"2020-04-26T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T05:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2020-04-26T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T05:03:14","slug":"you-can-lead-a-kid-to-a-bed-but-you-cant-make-them-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/26\/you-can-lead-a-kid-to-a-bed-but-you-cant-make-them-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"You can lead a kid to a bed, but you can\u2019t make them sleep."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can lead a horse to water, but you can\u2019t make it drink. The version of that that I\u2019m living right now is: You can lead a kid to bed, but you can\u2019t make them sleep. You probably have your own version. You can control some things, but not everything. So just do what you can do, adjust, and don\u2019t worry too much about what you can\u2019t control. Better to plan for it and plan around it than to plan to push through it. The horse will drink when it\u2019s thirsty. The kid will sleep when they\u2019re tired. And not any earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can lead a horse to water, but you can\u2019t make it drink. The version of that that I\u2019m living right now is: You can lead a kid to bed, but you can\u2019t make them sleep. You probably have your own version. You can control some things, but not everything. So just do what you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/26\/you-can-lead-a-kid-to-a-bed-but-you-cant-make-them-sleep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You can lead a kid to a bed, but you can\u2019t make them sleep.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}