{"id":1320,"date":"2008-07-08T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2008-07-08T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:33:21","slug":"moment-of-cuteness-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2008\/07\/08\/moment-of-cuteness-152\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment of cuteness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, 50% cute, at least.  <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3009\/2643770919_c2b11773e4.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3009\/2643770919_c2b11773e4_m.jpg\" alt=\"hat\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ava was wearing my new sun hat while we sat outside at the Java House this past weekend.  She was happy to take a couple arms-length portrait shots with me.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI remain awed by the biology of parenthood.  I figure the same process that enables Leah to completely erase all memories of her nightmarish delivery with Ava is the same one at work when I look at Ava and marvel at how precious she is.  There are lots and lots of adorable, bright kids around these days, but Ava&#8217;s the best.  No argument.  Everyone else pales in comparison.  And this from a guy who makes a concerted effort to remain realistic about his child&#8217;s place in the world.  I understand there&#8217;s no way she can ever be everything I think she is or will become, but for now &#8212; while all her potential is still before her &#8212; I&#8217;m loving the delusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, 50% cute, at least. Ava was wearing my new sun hat while we sat outside at the Java House this past weekend. She was happy to take a couple arms-length portrait shots with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-li","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}