{"id":450,"date":"2009-07-27T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/07\/27\/dear-lilah\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:19:00","slug":"dear-lilah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/07\/27\/dear-lilah\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Lilah,"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>You are the most hilarious baby I have ever met!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Within a few minutes of meeting you for the first time, you:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>winked at me while holding a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lotus_position\">lotus position<\/a>,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/Sm3wZDgkj7I\/AAAAAAAABbE\/YpDZKdAlVf4\/s400\/lilah4.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>threw me a rockin&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sign_of_the_horns\">devil horns salute<\/a>,<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/Sm3wYhyqcBI\/AAAAAAAABa8\/y3pCQzmvRrs\/s400\/lilah3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>and told me to &#8220;fuck off&#8221; in time-honoured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A11047132\">British style<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/Sm3wYQo5plI\/AAAAAAAABa0\/xcVECjXL26Q\/s400\/lilah2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>I can tell that you and I are going to be the very best of friends. I offer you the same welcome to the world and promises that I gave to <a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/dear-morgan.html\">baby Morgan<\/a>, with an added bonus of two whole weeks of auntie-to-a-newborn experience. It must be working, because you fell asleep so peacefully when I first held you.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Maybe cut back on the attitude a wee bit though, eh? The monkey hand-puppet was a freebie; all future gifts need to be earned.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Just think about it. Have a good ponder.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/Sm3wYL_5gFI\/AAAAAAAABas\/aWU1KI6y4Nw\/s400\/lilah1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>All my love,<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Auntie Cath <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>xoxoxox<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are the most hilarious baby I have ever met! Within a few minutes of meeting you for the first time, you: winked at me while holding a lotus position, threw me a rockin&#8217; devil horns salute, and told me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/07\/27\/dear-lilah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,25,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-silliness","category-the-2009-baby-boom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}