{"id":1223,"date":"2011-08-25T17:28:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T16:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2011-08-25T10:31:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T09:31:29","slug":"a-babys-ever-changing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/a-babys-ever-changing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Baby&#8217;s Ever-Changing World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThings can change very quickly in a baby&#8217;s world. Sometimes the Little Monkey will be kicking away on his playmat, and suddenly he&#8217;s assailed with a wrenching, terrible pain: &#8220;No-one has ever hurt like this before&#8221; he thinks, &#8220;All the light has gone out of the world, my whole being feels empty, I am the most dreadfully neglected, unhappy individual there has ever been!&#8221; And then he gets a mouthful of milk and muses &#8220;Well, this <em>is<\/em> nice; some lovely milk, and just when I was getting a tad peckish, don&#8217;t cha know. What a delightful day I&#8217;m having! Ah, look at mummy&#8217;s pretty face, she&#8217;s such a treat that I&#8217;ll give a little smile, she&#8217;s a sucker for those.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd then at bedtime: &#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t care if it <em>is<\/em> dark, I&#8217;m having a smashing time, waving my limbs around, gurgling, I&#8217;m so awesome! Wait, daddy, why are you putting me down here, on my soft, sleepy place? And don&#8217;t tuck me, you silly man, how will I be able to thrash about then? Oh. No, wait a sec&#8230; Zzzzzzzzz zzzzzz&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things can change very quickly in a baby&#8217;s world. Sometimes the Little Monkey will be kicking away on his playmat, and suddenly he&#8217;s assailed with a wrenching, terrible pain: &#8220;No-one has ever hurt like this before&#8221; he thinks, &#8220;All the light has gone out of the world, my whole being feels empty, I am the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}