{"id":33,"date":"2001-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-33.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"sluggy-freelance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2001\/04\/23\/sluggy-freelance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sluggy Freelance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like I&#8217;ve got another web cartoon to add to my list of daily funnies:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluggy.com\">Sluggy Freelance<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Another busy day today.  We had our first visit from the Health Visitor, who turns out to be the only male Health Visitor in the Lothian region.  A charming and friendly guy, we had a good long chat about what happens next in the whole baby thing (immunisations, developmental stages, checkups, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>We also had our last midwife visit, from the similarly charming Maureen Benson, who has seen us through the whole pregnancy.  Maureen had been on holiday last week, so it was a different community midwife who saw us at home initially, but Maureen took over today.  She seemed genuinely delighted to see that we&#8217;re getting on so well, and that everything is working out for us.<\/p>\n<p>Either we&#8217;ve totally lucked out in the selection of healthcare workers presented to us, or the NHS is filled with totally lovely, hardworking, and caring people.  I prefer to think it&#8217;s the latter, but maybe my cynical and bitter old heart is being turned all mushy by being a father.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I also took a couple of trips to the dump to recycle\/get rid of several years of accumulated files, papers, magazines and other junk.  Then I ripped apart an old bookcase that has been with us since Dickson Street, and turned it into a two-piece server rack and storage shelves for our kitchen cupboard.<\/p>\n<p>Cool!  With a little imagination we can now claim to have a house with a library (semi-floored attic filled with 2000-odd boxed-up books) and a server room (<i>cum<\/i> pantry).  Sounds much bigger than a three-bedroom semi-detached, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like I&#8217;ve got another web cartoon to add to my list of daily funnies: Sluggy Freelance Another busy day today. We had our first visit from the Health Visitor, who turns out to be the only male Health Visitor in the Lothian region. A charming and friendly guy, we had a good long chat &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2001\/04\/23\/sluggy-freelance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sluggy Freelance&#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":[34,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}