{"id":2541,"date":"2010-03-18T15:38:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T21:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2010-03-18T15:39:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T21:39:46","slug":"what-have-you-done-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2010\/03\/18\/what-have-you-done-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"What have you done lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does it ever go away?  That passing feeling that the incredible little person standing in front of you couldn&#8217;t possibly have arisen out of your life?  I get it a lot with Ava, and it&#8217;s not even so much upon hearing some particularly bright or funny thing she&#8217;s said.  Mostly it&#8217;s just seeing her.  The concomitant sensation is one of being set adrift, alone, as in, &#8220;Well, here she is.  <em>Now <\/em>what?&#8221;  It seems there are so many more ways to screw this up than to do well by my kids, I think because I always assume what I&#8217;m doing is going to damage them in some way.  Too much tickling?  Should we have listened to that Duran Duran song?  I never should&#8217;ve corrected her spelling of &#8220;serious.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSoon, Ava&#8217;s going to be able to read these posts without any help from her parents.  If she can find them.  She&#8217;s already dictating comments to me that I&#8217;m to include on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nico\/4442479489\/\">Flickr photos she likes<\/a>.  She&#8217;ll be typing those herself before long, too.  Sometimes I think if I never do anything else as a parent, I&#8217;ll have met my own very low standards of achievement if I can convince Ava that she&#8217;s amazing and perfect just because she is here, because she <em>is<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4443578766_eaa99f2e85.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4443578766_eaa99f2e85_m.jpg\" alt=\"agp tongue\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does it ever go away? That passing feeling that the incredible little person standing in front of you couldn&#8217;t possibly have arisen out of your life? I get it a lot with Ava, and it&#8217;s not even so much upon hearing some particularly bright or funny thing she&#8217;s said. Mostly it&#8217;s just seeing her. The [&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":[2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-tmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-EZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","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=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}