{"id":927,"date":"2011-07-04T22:18:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T21:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2011-07-17T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T13:12:01","slug":"everything-a-baby-needs-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/everything-a-baby-needs-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything a Baby Needs to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn the weeks before <a href='\/blog\/archives\/932'>the arrival of the Little Monkey<\/a>, I encountered the same Kurt Vonnegut quote twice, independently, as I bimbled around the internet. I wasn&#8217;t even looking for anything to do with Vonnegut or babies, and yet here was a wonderful quote that captured my feelings almost exactly. It&#8217;s from <em>God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater<\/em> (which I&#8217;ve not read, but have now ordered&#8230;):\n<\/p>\n<p style='padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px;'>\n&#8220;Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It&#8217;s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It&#8217;s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you&#8217;ve got about a hundred years here. There&#8217;s only one rule that I know of, babies &#8211; God damn it, you&#8217;ve got to be kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the weeks before the arrival of the Little Monkey, I encountered the same Kurt Vonnegut quote twice, independently, as I bimbled around the internet. I wasn&#8217;t even looking for anything to do with Vonnegut or babies, and yet here was a wonderful quote that captured my feelings almost exactly. It&#8217;s from God Bless You, [&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":[16],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternal","tag-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}