{"id":1812,"date":"2009-05-04T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2009-05-04T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T05:07:00","slug":"parlor-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"Parlor Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, Christian discovered his tongue, and ever since, he&#8217;s been perfecting his baby sign for &#8220;dog.&#8221; The baby sign is (often) panting with your tongue hanging out, but Christian&#8217;s original version was just heavy breathing (only cute in males under one year of age!) with no tongue.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s so happy about it that you can see that once he starts signing &#8220;dog,&#8221; it&#8217;s hard to get him to do something else &#8211; but he does like mooing like a cow too. I like how he tries different sounds before he settles on the one he thinks sounds the most like me.<\/p>\n<p>These vids are dedicated to Christian&#8217;s grandparents who decided not to visit this weekend after there was a confirmed case of swine flu in the town where my mother-in-law teaches second grade.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SLrBZ1eGuhQ]<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HoiixM2ZOeE]<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z5TrBRMM9nE]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, Christian discovered his tongue, and ever since, he&#8217;s been perfecting his baby sign for &#8220;dog.&#8221; The baby sign is (often) panting with your tongue hanging out, but Christian&#8217;s original version was just heavy breathing (only cute &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1812\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babies","category-christian-holden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}