{"id":451,"date":"2007-04-25T20:54:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=451"},"modified":"2007-04-25T20:54:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T19:54:45","slug":"welcome-to-the-world-joshua-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the world, Joshua (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Vee and I went on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/China.html\">holiday to China<\/a> in September 2000, on the long flight back we talked to a 25 year old Chinese woman sitting next to us who was making her first-ever trip out of China to travel to Oxford University to do a PhD in biochemical engineering. She was called Hua (English name Cathy). Out of that conversation came a friendship between and her husband Zhihao (English name Alex) that has lasted six and a half years now and has become so close that we regard them like a daughter and son.<br \/>\nEarly this morning at 1.18 am in a London hospital, Hua gave birth to a baby boy weighing an impressive 8 pounds 5 ounces. His English name is Joshua. The news from Zhihao about Hua and Joshua is that: &#8220;Both of them are very well. Very well indeed. Little Joshua seems not a very naughty but a happy boy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Joshua.jpg\"  border=3><br \/><font size=\"-2\">Day One for Joshua<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nHi, Joshua, welcome to the world. You have the most wonderful parents and we are so looking foward to being your British &#8216;grandparents&#8217;. Love to all three of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Vee and I went on holiday to China in September 2000, on the long flight back we talked to a 25 year old Chinese woman sitting next to us who was making her first-ever trip out of China to travel to Oxford University to do a PhD in biochemical engineering. She was called Hua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}