{"id":12285,"date":"2010-07-27T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12285"},"modified":"2010-07-27T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T15:00:58","slug":"awwwwwwwwww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12285","title":{"rendered":"Awwwwwwwwww!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first MOB baby is here!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mall Diva&#8221; and &#8220;Ben&#8221; from <em>Night Writer <\/em>announce&#8230;well, actually, no &#8211; they&#8217;re busy.\u00a0 Grandpa Night Writer <a href=\"http:\/\/thenightwriterblog.com\/2010\/07\/26\/with-arms-wide-open\/\">does the announcing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Finally, at 5:58 [Sunday afternoon]\u00a0my youngest daughter, Tiger Lilly, hollered downstairs, \u201cDaddy, come see your new grandson!\u201d As I thundered up the stairs I heard a brand new voice \u2014 crying at the top of his new but strong lungs \u2014 and that\u2019s when my head nearly spun off of my body at the enormity of what had actually happened, right here in my own home, to my own daughter. Just moments ago the only thing we could hear of him was the heatbeat on the monitor, and now \u2014 a voice! I\u2019d already well-imagined a face, hair, little fists and feet \u2014 but never thought about <em>hearing <\/em>him for the first time! The stairway seemed to contract on me for a moment as if I were making my own way out into a new world and then I joined the crowd in the bedroom, shouldering my place into line to wait, with arms wide-open, for my turn to hold him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Little Ben is so far so good.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Ben and the Diva and &#8211; since being an aunt seems to agree with her &#8211; Tiger Lily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first MOB baby is here! &#8220;Mall Diva&#8221; and &#8220;Ben&#8221; from Night Writer announce&#8230;well, actually, no &#8211; they&#8217;re busy.\u00a0 Grandpa Night Writer does the announcing: Finally, at 5:58 [Sunday afternoon]\u00a0my youngest daughter, Tiger Lilly, hollered downstairs, \u201cDaddy, come see your new grandson!\u201d As I thundered up the stairs I heard a brand new voice \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12286,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12285\/revisions\/12286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}