{"id":102,"date":"2010-03-04T23:44:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-03-04T23:44:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:44:28","slug":"dear-third-grade-teacher-of-number-one-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Dear Third Grade Teacher of Number One Son,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was very nice to see you at the \u201cdancing with the SOL tests\u201d event this evening.  I\u2019m sure my son and the rest of your class will do great on the exams, even if you\u2019re not there to see them.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with the baby \u2013 looks like you\u2019re due any day!  While we were driving home from the event, I asked my son if he understood that you were going to be leaving the classroom soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, sure Daddy,\u201d he said.  \u201cShe\u2019s pregnant \u2013 she\u2019s going to have a baby.  I\u2019m pretty sure she\u2019s having routine sonograms every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, really?  Why would she have one every day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, you know, just to check on the fetal heart rate and stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019d like to apologize in advance if he starts quizzing you in class about what kind of birth you\u2019re planning.  He has an unhealthy fixation with the Discovery Health channel and retains far more of it than might be good for a nine year old.  That said, if you do have any questions, feel free to consider him a short, unlicensed obstetrician.  <\/p>\n<p>And good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was very nice to see you at the \u201cdancing with the SOL tests\u201d event this evening. I\u2019m sure my son and the rest of your class will do great on the exams, even if you\u2019re not there to see them. Good luck with the baby \u2013 looks like you\u2019re due any day! While we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}