{"id":2896,"date":"2011-05-12T09:40:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T14:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2011-05-12T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T14:42:09","slug":"baby-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2011\/05\/12\/baby-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L has it.  And <em>bad<\/em>.  The memories of the traumatic births of our two children have, apparently, completely faded from her mind.  Tristan Davison is mostly to blame, of course; If he hadn&#8217;t come along and been so stinking cute, we wouldn&#8217;t be where we are today.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAs the lone voice of reason in all this madness (don&#8217;t you ever again want to sleep your own bed without a child in it?  Think how many pairs of shoes you could buy with daycare tuition, etc.) I&#8217;ve been cast as a heartless baby hater.  But I don&#8217;t hate babies.  I love babies!  And the best babies of all are the babies I can pick up and snuggle for five minutes and then hand off to their parents as they walk out the door.  And I love my own babies, for sure.  I just don&#8217;t want another one.  No matter <em>how <\/em>beautiful our babies turn out.  To support my claim, here&#8217;s a photo of me, kissing my first-born child when she was but a wee tot:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/heet_myser\/195191079\/\" title=\"IMG_3659.JPG by heet_myser, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/61\/195191079_bfc403feb7_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"IMG_3659.JPG\"\/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI rest my case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L has it. And bad. The memories of the traumatic births of our two children have, apparently, completely faded from her mind. Tristan Davison is mostly to blame, of course; If he hadn&#8217;t come along and been so stinking cute, we wouldn&#8217;t be where we are today.<\/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":[2,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-baby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-KI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","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=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}