{"id":692,"date":"2011-09-29T23:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2011-09-30T09:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T08:10:06","slug":"the-pre-natal-little-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/the-pre-natal-little-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pre-Natal Little Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe Little Monkey celebrates 3 months on the face of the planet today; which means that a year ago (&#177; 2 days) a tiny clump of cells had popped into existence that would develop into our lovely little baby. As a scientist I suppose I had an intellectual conception of life&#8217;s <a href='http:\/\/bookpeopleblog.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/07\/2633' title='Poem: Miracle Fair'>commonplace miracles<\/a>, but when it&#8217;s (partly) your own DNA that is swirling around to create a new life, the realisation that one has an unbroken connection stretching back 3 billion years to the very origin of life is rather striking&#8230; Anyway, I thought this was as good an excuse as any to post some pre-natal pictures.\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-695\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/PoppySeed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/PoppySeed.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Poppy Seed\" width=\"480\" height=\"192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/PoppySeed.jpg 480w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/PoppySeed-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poppyseed-sized Little Monkey at two weeks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-694\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FirstScan_Sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Plum\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FirstScan_Sm.jpg 480w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FirstScan_Sm-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plum-sized Little Monkey, at twelve weeks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-697\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20WeekScan_Sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cantaloupe\" width=\"480\" height=\"345\" class=\"size-full wp-image-697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20WeekScan_Sm.jpg 480w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20WeekScan_Sm-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cantaloupe-sized Little Monkey, at twenty weeks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Little Monkey celebrates 3 months on the face of the planet today; which means that a year ago (&#177; 2 days) a tiny clump of cells had popped into existence that would develop into our lovely little baby. As a scientist I suppose I had an intellectual conception of life&#8217;s commonplace miracles, but when [&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-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}