{"id":915,"date":"2015-04-07T00:24:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T00:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2015-04-15T04:48:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T04:48:48","slug":"new-friends-not-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"New Friends Not in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It isn\u2019t\u00a0always easy to\u00a0get your ducks in a row. \u00a0We found out yesterday that it\u2019s also\u00a0hard to get ducks to stay in an Easter basket. \u00a0It was Easter morning and we wanted to surprise our children after our church\u2019s sunrise worship service. \u00a0One of my childhood dreams was waking up on Easter morning to find a real live chick or a bunny or a duckling in my basket. \u00a0It was one of those dreams that never came true. \u00a0I know, it\u2019s sad. \u00a0But, I didn\u2019t grow up on a farm. \u00a0So, I can\u2019t really blame my parents for only putting edible chocolate bunnies and marshmallow peeps in the purple plastic straw. \u00a0All these years later, I decided to make my dream happen for our children! \u00a0We planned for our children to find a duckling in each of their baskets at the end of an Easter hunt. \u00a0But, by the time the baskets were located, all the ducklings had escaped across the hardwood floor waddling everywhere but going nowhere. \u00a0We had chosen one male for our son and two females for our daughters. \u00a0Of course, these adorable ducklings are always trying to stick together and, as my children played with their new ducklings, my young son seemed surprised, \u201cMy duck real&#8211;ly likes the la&#8211;dies\u2026\u201d The children played and cuddled with their ducklings all day inside and outside, on the hammock and on the trampoline and even on the swings. \u00a0Well, we may never get all our ducks in a row here on the franch, but our children certainly have some new farm friends to love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_3149.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-917\" src=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_3149-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3149\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_3149-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_3149-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_3149-676x507.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn\u2019t\u00a0always easy to\u00a0get your ducks in a row. \u00a0We found out yesterday that it\u2019s also\u00a0hard to get ducks to stay in an Easter basket. \u00a0It was Easter morning and we wanted to surprise our children after our church\u2019s sunrise worship service. \u00a0One of my childhood dreams was waking up on Easter morning to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}