{"id":147,"date":"2014-01-15T10:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T22:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=147"},"modified":"2014-12-09T05:25:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:25:22","slug":"stellar-links-sunny-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"stellar links, sunny day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/toyokazu\/\" target=\"_blank\">These pictures<\/a> will make you wish you were a photographer: here the gent in question photographs his daughter in such inspired ways.\u00a0 Blown away.\u00a0\u00a0 I was similarly inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/sports-rec\/most-amazing-playgrounds-20131126\" target=\"_blank\">this photographic collection of awesome playground<\/a>s from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=the-13-most-obvious-findings&amp;WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20140102\" target=\"_blank\">enjoy the list from Scientific American<\/a> of the most obvious research findings of 2013, and begin 2014 with t<a href=\"http:\/\/gg.govt.nz\/content\/new-year-message-2014\" target=\"_blank\">he Governor General&#8217;s message<\/a>: it&#8217;s a shout out to families.\u00a0 HOLLA!<\/p>\n<p>A link to a fascinating podcast is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/podcasts\/lexicon_valley\/2013\/12\/lexicon_valley_how_children_master_the_many_meanings_of_no.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> (thanks, Slate) and it&#8217;s rather illuminating in its discussion of children&#8217;s learning about and use of the word NO.\u00a0 Enjoy!\u00a0 (No!)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, closer to home, Little Girl is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parents.com\/baby\/health\/baby-teeth\/baby-teething-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\">cutting her second molars<\/a> (OUCH!).\u00a0 While I empathise, I find myself kind of pleased to have something to blame the grouchiness on.\u00a0 Big Girl&#8217;s grouchiness can be blamed on my current obsession about the <a href=\"http:\/\/healthyeating.sfgate.com\/maximum-amount-sugar-day-children-8982.html\" target=\"_blank\">amount of sugar <\/a>we&#8217;re all consuming.\u00a0 As the person responsible for feeding this family, I find it can be quite the burden to choose things that are <a href=\"http:\/\/deliciouslyella.com\/the-healthiest-chocolate-mousse-vegan-gluten-free-dairy-free-sugar-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">delicious, balanced<\/a>, and that the fellas will eat.<\/p>\n<p>Motherhood, eh?\u00a0 It&#8217;s all I ever wanted, and it wears me out.\u00a0 Both things are true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These pictures will make you wish you were a photographer: here the gent in question photographs his daughter in such inspired ways.\u00a0 Blown away.\u00a0\u00a0 I was similarly inspired by this photographic collection of awesome playgrounds from around the world. Here &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,22,16,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}