{"id":104,"date":"2004-04-11T22:29:35","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T02:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2006-06-27T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T03:39:08","slug":"birth-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Birth Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Birth Announcement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jacob Carl DeWayne Jones came and joined this world on a very Good Friday, 4\/9\/04, at 1:44 a.m. He weighed 8 lbs. 14.6 oz. and was 19.5 inches long. For the fan of the metric, that&#8217;s 4.040 kg. He is doing wonderfully. Laureen is doing well, although she&#8217;s starting to realize the value of pain medication after a 2nd degree tear. The birth was natural with no epidural, although Laureen did take some narcotic to help her rest between contractions. We&#8217;re all bonding pretty well right now, but as for me, there&#8217;s nowhere near enough words to express the love I feel for this child&#8211;the way he falls asleep in my arms when I rock him; the way he cries like a little billy goat when something isn&#8217;t to his liking; the cute little nicknames he&#8217;s already earned (&#8220;Burrito Boy&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll write more later about the experience. Oh yes, there will be pictures.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone keeping track, I didn&#8217;t faint, even when I saw the real placenta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth Announcement Jacob Carl DeWayne Jones came and joined this world on a very Good Friday, 4\/9\/04, at 1:44 a.m. He weighed 8 lbs. 14.6 oz. and was 19.5 inches long. For the fan of the metric, that&#8217;s 4.040 kg. He is doing wonderfully. Laureen is doing well, although she&#8217;s starting to realize the value &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birth Announcement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jacob","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}