{"id":8753,"date":"2012-06-15T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2012-06-15T23:36:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T22:36:38","slug":"the-rise-and-rise-of-baby-catrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8753","title":{"rendered":"The rise and rise of baby Catrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of NightHawk will know how delighted (OK, besotted) I am to be a grandfather. Baby Catrin is now almost one and a half and remains an absolute delight.<\/p>\n<p>I like to see her once a week, but recently we have been to Washington &amp; New York and Catrin &amp; parents have been to San Antonio, so I haven&#8217;t been able to see her for some time.<\/p>\n<p>When I collected her from nursery this week, it was four weeks since I had been with her &#8211; and what a change. She is taller and heavier, she has more teeth, she is walking more confidently, and she is so much more expressive.<\/p>\n<p>Her mum &amp; dad have taught her on request to point to her nose, mouth and ears and to the questioner&#8217;s nose, mouth and ears. I was so impressed. We need to start saving now for her university expenses.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 3px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/NewCatrin.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"336\" \/><br \/>\n<span>&#8220;I&#8217;m a big girl now, ain&#8217;t I granddad?&#8221;<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of NightHawk will know how delighted (OK, besotted) I am to be a grandfather. Baby Catrin is now almost one and a half and remains an absolute delight. I like to see her once a week, but recently we have been to Washington &amp; New York and Catrin &amp; parents have been to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753","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=8753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8759,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions\/8759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}