{"id":8299,"date":"2013-08-08T07:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2013-08-08T07:41:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:41:48","slug":"260-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/08\/08\/260-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"260 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time readers will remember that I used to do weekly kid-blogging, posting pictures of SteelyKid with a reference animal, <a href=\"http:\/\/avatar.wikia.com\/wiki\/Appa\">Appa the sky-bison<\/a> from the <cite>Avatar<\/cite> cartoon. I stopped a couple of years ago, because SteelyKid started being reluctant to pose for the pictures every week.<\/p>\n<p>I got her to pose for a few yesterday, though, so we can see what a difference 260 weeks makes. Here&#8217;s the first really good Appa-for-scale picture, one week after she was born:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8302\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/08\/sm_week01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/08\/sm_week01.jpg\" alt=\"SteelyKid and Appa at age one week, back in 2008.\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sm_week01.jpg 500w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sm_week01-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SteelyKid and Appa at age one week, back in 2008.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And here they are on her fifth birthday (also the &#8220;featured image&#8221; for this post):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8300\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/08\/sm_week260a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/08\/sm_week260a.jpg\" alt=\"SteelyKid and Appa on her fifth birthday\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sm_week260a.jpg 500w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sm_week260a-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SteelyKid and Appa on her fifth birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just a little bit of a difference&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And just for really old-times&#8217; sake, here&#8217;s a compilation of the first year of Baby Blogging photos:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kw_YVdl2kJg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you prefer living-in-the-future to reliving the past, here&#8217;s a photo of SteelyKid with her big birthday present:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8303\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/08\/sm_steelykid_nook1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2013\/08\/sm_steelykid_nook1.jpg\" alt=\"SteelyKid with her new tablet.\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sm_steelykid_nook1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sm_steelykid_nook1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SteelyKid with her new tablet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We got her one of the Nook HD tablets Barnes and Noble is selling cheap these days. This will require strict rules and parental controls, but she&#8217;s very fired up for it. It makes me feel old, though, because the cheap portable computer I just bought for my five-year-old is more powerful than any of the computers I used up through graduate school&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time readers will remember that I used to do weekly kid-blogging, posting pictures of SteelyKid with a reference animal, Appa the sky-bison from the Avatar cartoon. I stopped a couple of years ago, because SteelyKid started being reluctant to pose for the pictures every week. I got her to pose for a few yesterday, though,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/08\/08\/260-weeks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">260 Weeks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","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=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}