{"id":139,"date":"2007-10-31T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2011-10-31T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:22:19","slug":"and-happy-birthday-to-the-bonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"And Happy Birthday to the Bonk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; To my eldest, who was a good and dutiful child even in utero. We learned early in 1998 that she was there, and that she&#8217;d be due in mid-November. The first thing I said was, oh, a Halloween baby!<\/p>\n<p>The midwife induced on Oct 30, around 7 am, because it doesn&#8217;t really matter what the FATHER thinks about when babies should be born. Trust me that on the maternaty ward, all soon-to-be fathers are Big, Ugly, Man Dolls.<\/p>\n<p>The baby in question, however, has a LOT to say about when the baby gets born. She held out for 21 hours, and was born around 3 AM on Halloween. To this day, my wife has never quite forgiven me.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; To my eldest, who was a good and dutiful child even in utero. We learned early in 1998 that she was there, and that she&#8217;d be due in mid-November. The first thing I said was, oh, a Halloween baby! The midwife induced on Oct 30, around 7 am, because it doesn&#8217;t really matter what [&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":[11,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}