{"id":1198,"date":"2004-07-01T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1198.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"they-dont-stay-young-for-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/07\/01\/they-dont-stay-young-for-long\/","title":{"rendered":"They don&#8217;t stay young for long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Alex&#8217;s last day in the Toddler Room at his nursery today.  From next week, he&#8217;ll be in the <em>Pre-School Room<\/em>.  He&#8217;s only three, and he won&#8217;t be starting primary school until 2006, but it still shows what a big boy he is, and how quickly he is growing up.<\/p>\n<p>And as I carried Fiona into the Baby Room, she was holding herself almost upright in my arms, and looking from side to side like a startled meerkat.  No more flopping against my chest because she lacks the muscle control to keep her head up.  She can&#8217;t quite sit upright on her own yet, but she&#8217;s probably only a few weeks away from that milestone, too.  And then she&#8217;ll be rolling and crawling and climbing up stairs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Alex&#8217;s last day in the Toddler Room at his nursery today. From next week, he&#8217;ll be in the Pre-School Room. He&#8217;s only three, and he won&#8217;t be starting primary school until 2006, but it still shows what a big boy he is, and how quickly he is growing up. And as I carried Fiona &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/07\/01\/they-dont-stay-young-for-long\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They don&#8217;t stay young for long&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}