{"id":200,"date":"2006-01-09T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T01:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=200"},"modified":"2006-01-09T19:18:18","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T01:18:18","slug":"january-9-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/01\/09\/january-9-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"January 9 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first <em>real<\/em> hug from Ava today. Just this evening, in fact. Thirty minutes ago. And then she gave me two more before she went off to bed.<\/p>\n<p>I think up until tonight she was giving what she <em>thought<\/em> were hugs. I&#8217;d pick her up and give her a squeeze, and she&#8217;d drape her arms around my neck and maybe give a little pat on the back. It was awesome, especially the little pat. If she never hugged any better than that, I sure wouldn&#8217;t complain.<\/p>\n<p>But this evening &#8212; out of nowhere &#8212; she squeezed me back. She stretched her arms from shoulder to shoulder and laid a big ol&#8217; bear hug on me. I wouldn&#8217;t have guessed she had it in her tiny frame. I even got a little kiss on the cheek, too.<\/p>\n<p>Man.  Amazing.  The best hug ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first real hug from Ava today. Just this evening, in fact. Thirty minutes ago. And then she gave me two more before she went off to bed. I think up until tonight she was giving what she thought were hugs. I&#8217;d pick her up and give her a squeeze, and she&#8217;d drape [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-3e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}