{"id":5685,"date":"2011-06-23T20:14:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T20:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/23\/thursday-monkeying-around-blog\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T20:14:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T20:14:24","slug":"thursday-monkeying-around-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/23\/thursday-monkeying-around-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Monkeying Around Blogging 062311"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SteelyKid is in a bit of a &#8220;no pictures&#8221; phase at the moment, which makes it kind of difficult to get weekly shots. Hence the run of Toddler Blogging pictures without Appa in them&#8211; when we pick Appa up, she runs away.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, this shot with the color balance all wonky (I could do a better job of cleaning it up, but I&#8217;m lazy), because the flash hadn&#8217;t warmed up yet, and she started freaking out before I could get a better shot. It does, however, show the finest balloon animal you can get from &#8220;Mr. Twisty,&#8221; who does his act at the Greenmarket every now and then:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-2c141bcf0ef22061c5625a930e0498c9-sm_balloon_monkey.jpg\" alt=\"i-2c141bcf0ef22061c5625a930e0498c9-sm_balloon_monkey.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a monkey climbing a tree to get a banana, per SteelyKid&#8217;s request. Well, ok, what she actually asked for was a doggie climbing a tree because he was being chased by a dinosaur, combining the requests of the previous four children, but the monkey seemed more plausible, and she was very happy with it. It also serves very well as a head-bonker, provided I duck down a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the camera-shy phase will pass soon, or else I&#8217;m going to need to cultivate some paparazzi skills&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SteelyKid is in a bit of a &#8220;no pictures&#8221; phase at the moment, which makes it kind of difficult to get weekly shots. Hence the run of Toddler Blogging pictures without Appa in them&#8211; when we pick Appa up, she runs away. Thus, this shot with the color balance all wonky (I could do a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/23\/thursday-monkeying-around-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday Monkeying Around Blogging 062311<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}