{"id":1808,"date":"2009-02-03T20:57:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T02:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2009-02-03T20:57:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T02:57:34","slug":"moment-of-cuteness-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2009\/02\/03\/moment-of-cuteness-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment of cuteness, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was home with Ava today, as she was feverish and complaining of stomach pain at school yesterday.  When I went to pick her up, she was really lethargic and was crying.  Leah and I were thinking appendicitis, but a quick trip to the pediatrician assuaged our fears.  As a matter of fact, Ava achieved a miraculous recovery between the time I picked her up at school and when we sat down in the doctor&#8217;s office.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhich is good and bad.  Good that she&#8217;s feeling better.  Bad that I have to take a day off work to stay with her during her 24-hour fever quarantine.  Worse, actually, that my office expressly forbids me from working from home, which means I&#8217;ll have twice as much work to do and half as much time to do it when I get in tomorrow.  So I&#8217;m like, &#8220;I&#8217;ll work for free, just let me get this done.&#8221;  And they&#8217;re like, &#8220;No.  Federal law.  Sorry.&#8221;  Fine.  Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.  The cuteness.  Sorry.  Here ya go:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3031\/3251106899_f660ddb11f.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3031\/3251106899_f660ddb11f_m.jpg\" alt=\"eyes\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is my first try at getting Ava&#8217;s eyes to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/digital-photography-school.com\/editing-eyes-3-photoshop-steps-to-eyes-that-pop\">pop<\/a>&#8221; using Photoshop.  I think I may have overdone it a bit, but I&#8217;ve always wanted to try to get more brown out of them.  I figured this technique was worth a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Have I mentioned lately that I love this kid?  Well, I do.  A bunch.  Her little sibling&#8217;s going to have some big shoes to fill, figuratively speaking, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was home with Ava today, as she was feverish and complaining of stomach pain at school yesterday. When I went to pick her up, she was really lethargic and was crying. Leah and I were thinking appendicitis, but a quick trip to the pediatrician assuaged our fears. As a matter of fact, Ava achieved [&hellip;]<\/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-1808","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-ta","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","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=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}