{"id":4599,"date":"2014-04-21T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T01:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2014-04-21T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T01:12:10","slug":"hitting-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/hitting-balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitting balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having only been a parent for a few short years now, I&#8217;m just constantly aware of how amazing this process is. Here we have a little human being that started out being this little fragile pink warm object that did nothing but drink milk and poop. Now, 5 small years later he&#8217;s making friends of his own, figuring out\u00a0how to handle difficult situations, developing new muscle memory for his body, trying badly to master skills as a standup comedian, reading, swimming, etc etc.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I couldn&#8217;t stop myself from thinking this process of parenting was just like programming a computer. Only this organic computer has now taken off on its own somehow and is absorbing stuff at a faster rate than any computer I&#8217;ve ever worked with.<\/p>\n<p>Just this weekend I took Kingston down to a birthday party for one of his best friends. Imagine, my boy, having a &#8220;best&#8221; friend already. That&#8217;s so cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having only been a parent for a few short years now, I&#8217;m just constantly aware of how amazing this process is. Here we have a little human being that started out being this little fragile pink warm object that did nothing but drink milk and poop. Now, 5 small years later he&#8217;s making friends of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,13],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-photography","tag-kingston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}