{"id":1208,"date":"2010-05-28T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T10:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2010\/05\/love-friday-tiny-dancer-edition.html"},"modified":"2010-05-28T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T10:25:12","slug":"love-friday-tiny-dancer-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2010\/05\/love-friday-tiny-dancer-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Love Friday: Tiny Dancer Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/budgerina.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"budgerina.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/112\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/budgerina-thumb-400x400-14357.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>It&#8217;s been a hard week around here. Both Jasper and Emilia are sick. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/tanner\/\">Tanner<\/a> is declining. Life just seems dark and hard. But all it takes is a minute or two of flipping through some recent pictures of a wee ballerina at her dance recital rehearsal and the heart relaxes, and breathes, because it is reminded that where there is so much light, dark casts so much less shadow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a hard week around here. Both Jasper and Emilia are sick. Tanner is declining. Life just seems dark and hard. 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