{"id":1553,"date":"2017-05-11T03:56:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T03:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2017-05-11T03:56:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T03:56:14","slug":"how-important-are-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"How Important Are Moms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>With Mother&#8217;s Day coming up, it is a good time to remember how important mothers are. \u00a0I have an example of how one of my own children reminded me of that many years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To maximize the effect, you need to know that I hold a Master plumbing license in a couple of states. \u00a0At that time, I also held a plumbing contractor&#8217;s license in a neighboring state. \u00a0Quite often I would bring plans home to work on at the dining room table. \u00a0I was sitting there at the table one weekend several years ago, working away, when one of the kids came running down from upstairs. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>He had an urgent look on his face as he ran through the house and then down to the basement. \u00a0When he came back up from the basement still in a hurry and still looking for someone, I asked him as he ran by, what<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>was the matter? \u00a0He replied;\u00a0W<em>here&#8217;s Mom<\/em>? \u00a0T<em>he faucet upstairs won&#8217;t shut off!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How important are mothers? \u00a0Say no more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Mother&#8217;s Day coming up, it is a good time to remember how important mothers are. \u00a0I have an example of how one of my own children reminded me of that many years ago. To maximize the effect, you need to know that I hold a Master plumbing license in a couple of states. \u00a0At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Important Are Moms?<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}