{"id":75651,"date":"2012-12-23T01:52:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T09:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=19413"},"modified":"2012-12-23T01:52:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T09:52:55","slug":"merry-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/23\/merry-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GJSUT8Inl14\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Because of the nature of modern American &#8216;work-life balance&#8217; the next week or so is going to be my longest period of being the &#8216;primary caregiver&#8217; for my daughter in her short life. Needless to say I&#8217;m quite excited! Especially because this will be her first Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>I spent most of my childhood in a region on the margins of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake-effect_snow\">lake-effect<\/a>, so I am familiar with a white Christmas in a classical fashion. More recently I&#8217;ve been resident on the maritime fringes of the western United States, and snow is rare in the lower elevations of this region. But I persevere! <\/p>\n<p>Over the next week I will likely be blogging a great deal from my daughter&#8217;s playroom, where I&#8217;ll have a makeshift encampment. But rest assured this will be a great leisure for me. I hope readers of this weblog can find time to relax as well. Hopefully the comments will come back to a civilized state after the New Year&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/hbtZMmd1DkY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the nature of modern American &lsquo;work-life balance&rsquo; the next week or so is going to be my longest period of being the &lsquo;primary caregiver&rsquo; for my daughter in her short life. Needless to say I&rsquo;m quite excited! Especially because this will be her first Christmas. I spent most of my childhood in a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75753,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75651\/revisions\/75753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}