{"id":1499,"date":"2015-03-13T22:25:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T05:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2015-03-13T22:25:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T05:25:01","slug":"its-ok-to-be-afraid-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2015\/03\/13\/its-ok-to-be-afraid-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s ok to be afraid&#8230; Why not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia had the preschool bungalow assembly today. It consisted of each class singing a song, and then the whole preschool singing one song together.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3409-Small.mov\">Amelia&#8217;s PS3 assembly song<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Pizza Friday that evening (where we went to Delfina &#8211; #mickyfail), I asked Amelia about the performance, and she said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well. I was scared, but I kept singing, and everything was ok<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and I thought to myself how grown up that analysis sounded.<br \/>\nIt was spot on to what happened where in the first song she looked at her older friend Naomi to help her, and then did really wonderfully by herself on the second song.<\/p>\n<p>That was just a lovely moment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_1503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4082.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1503\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4082-300x146.jpg?resize=300%2C146\" alt=\"Amelia's PS3 assembly group song\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Amelia&#8217;s PS3 assembly group song<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia had the preschool bungalow assembly today. It consisted of each class singing a song, and then the whole preschool singing one song together. Check out the video here: Amelia&#8217;s PS3 assembly song At Pizza Friday that evening (where we went to Delfina &#8211; #mickyfail), I asked Amelia about the performance, and she said, Well. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[64,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-ob","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":922,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/02\/15\/another-first-amelias-first-song-request\/","url_meta":{"origin":1499,"position":0},"title":"Another first - Amelia's first song request","date":"February 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"We're on our way to swimming today, when Amelia decides to drop a big first - her first song request. When she asked for it, I was really surprised, and didn't actually believe her at first. Then... she started singing the lyrics, and I had no choice. 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