{"id":2676,"date":"2013-09-20T04:02:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2013-09-20T04:09:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T04:09:22","slug":"17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2676","title":{"rendered":"17 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to set the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In a hospital, a hugely pregnant gal is getting an ultrasound after being in labor for many hours.<\/p>\n<p>Everything looks fine.  The tired daddy-to-be says to the doctor, &#8220;Hey, while we&#8217;re looking, why don&#8217;t we make sure we&#8217;re still having a girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tiny doctor, from Guatemala &#8212; if memory serves, hooted loudly and, zooming the ultrasound thingy across the giant belly says, pointing to the screen, &#8220;These don&#8217;t come on a girl!!&#8221;  And then the doctor laughed some more.<\/p>\n<p>That is when we knew that the baby was not going to be the one we had been calling Mary Ellen for the last 5 months.<\/p>\n<p>No.  Instead, we were having this buster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130919-230211.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130919-230211.jpg\" alt=\"20130919-230211.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, life has been different ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, sweet (baby) James!!!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to set the scene. In a hospital, a hugely pregnant gal is getting an ultrasound after being in labor for many hours. Everything looks fine. The tired daddy-to-be says to the doctor, &#8220;Hey, while we&#8217;re looking, why don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2678,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}