…at about this time that my oldest, “Bun” (not her real name) was born.<\/p>\n
Her mother had gone into the “slow” labor three days earlier (at a KDWB Star Party, after Bell Biv Devoe’s set).\u00a0 About four the night before she’d gone into hard labor – which subsided as soon as we got to Ramsey County Hospital.\u00a0 A supremely arrogant resident, an Indian woman, sent us home – where the contractions jumped to one every 45 seconds the moment we got to the front steps.<\/p>\n
Eighteen hours of back labor later,\u00a0 the room flooded with doctors and nurses; I was too dazed to realize “this is probably a bad thing”.\u00a0 She was going into fetal distress from all the pushing; she had a salad tong delivery just in time to avoid a caesarian.<\/p>\n
She’s been about the same at getting to places on time ever since.<\/p>\n
Anyway – it’s been a wild 12 years.\u00a0 Happy Birthday, Bun!<\/p>\n
CORRECTION:\u00a0 Whoops – it’s been 18 <\/em>years.\u00a0 I had to double-check it.\u00a0 Didn’t seem possible.\u00a0 But yep, sure enough – Bell Biv Devoe hasn’t even been on <\/em>top 40 radio since 1991.<\/p>\n So ow.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0\u00a0My oldest is 18.\u00a0 My legal obligations just officially dropped in half.\u00a0 I say “officially”, of course; she’s not going anywhere for a while, yet.\u00a0 My “whack upside the head” factor, OTOH, doubled. The phrase “time flies” is terribly overused – but it’s true.\u00a0 It doesn’t seem possible.<\/p>\n Anyway – happy birthday, Bun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …at about this time that my oldest, “Bun” (not her real name) was born. Her mother had gone into the “slow” labor three days earlier (at a KDWB Star Party, after Bell Biv Devoe’s set).\u00a0 About four the night before she’d gone into hard labor – which subsided as soon as we got to Ramsey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219","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=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}