{"id":5904,"date":"2011-11-21T22:18:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T22:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/11\/21\/monday-pip-blogging-week-2\/"},"modified":"2011-11-21T22:18:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T22:18:15","slug":"monday-pip-blogging-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/11\/21\/monday-pip-blogging-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Pip Blogging: Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SteelyKid&#8217;s away at Grandma and Grandpa&#8217;s for a few days, to give us a little more time to acclimate to The Pip, which means you get a very traditional baby blogging picture:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-ff69546d12a9ccf8eb9798df16ccc935-sm_week2.jpg\" alt=\"i-ff69546d12a9ccf8eb9798df16ccc935-sm_week2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the greatest angle for comparing his size to Appa, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>The Pip is settling in nicely. His rate of growth met with medical approval last week, and he won&#8217;t need to be checked again until his one-month birthday, which is nice. He&#8217;s settling into a fairly reasonable routine of eating, sleeping, and excreting, with occasional periods of cute-and-awake. And he&#8217;s much calmer about the small indignities of life in the outside world&#8211; we&#8217;ve managed a few diaper changes with hardly a peep.<\/p>\n<p>So, you know, life, it goes on. Full interactivity is still a ways off, but even in the current state, he&#8217;s pretty awesome&#8211; I&#8217;d forgotten how pleasant it is to have an infant dozing on your lap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SteelyKid&#8217;s away at Grandma and Grandpa&#8217;s for a few days, to give us a little more time to acclimate to The Pip, which means you get a very traditional baby blogging picture: It&#8217;s not the greatest angle for comparing his size to Appa, but you get the idea. The Pip is settling in nicely. His&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/11\/21\/monday-pip-blogging-week-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday Pip Blogging: Week 2<\/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":[2,50,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","category-the_pip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","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=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}