{"id":159,"date":"2015-11-17T23:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T03:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=159"},"modified":"2015-11-17T23:17:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T03:17:30","slug":"52-holding-an-infant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"52. Holding an Infant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Holding-Zoe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-160\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Holding-Zoe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Holding Zoe\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Holding-Zoe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Holding-Zoe.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I arrived in Portland, the next day, I visited my sister Marcy and got to hold my 6-week-old, not-quite-9-pounds niece Zoe.<\/p>\n<p>She smiled at me!<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing quite so wonderful as holding a newborn.\u00a0 You forget how tiny they start out.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still smiling when I think about it.\u00a0 She fell asleep in my arms, which was a break for her mother and a thrill for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Zoe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-162\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Zoe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Zoe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Zoe.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, another wonderful blessing was getting to spend time with Zoe&#8217;s 3-years-and-one-day-old big sister Alyssa.\u00a0 Another true delight.\u00a0 (In this picture she&#8217;s feeding us pretend food &#8212; busghetti &#8212; at the park.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Alyssa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-161\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Alyssa-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Alyssa\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Alyssa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Alyssa.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I arrived in Portland, the next day, I visited my sister Marcy and got to hold my 6-week-old, not-quite-9-pounds niece Zoe. She smiled at me! There is nothing quite so wonderful as holding a newborn.\u00a0 You forget how tiny they start out.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still smiling when I think about it.\u00a0 She fell asleep in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}