{"id":806,"date":"2004-04-20T21:27:53","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T05:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/20\/nephew-and-niece-blogging\/"},"modified":"2004-04-20T21:27:53","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T05:27:53","slug":"nephew-and-niece-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Nephew and Niece Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As dedicated &#8220;Alas&#8221; readers will recall, my nephew Silas was born October 16, 2002 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/06\/jemma-elizabeth-andersen\/\">his sister Jemma <\/a>two weeks ago. It&#8217;s long past time I posted more pictures, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>My family is lucky in that my brother-in-law Tim is an outstanding photographer, so the kiddie photos we get are really good. Click below to see the pictures.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SilasSmile.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/SilasSmile.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Silas. I&#8217;m told he took his first steps today. I&#8217;m not sure this is such a smart thing for him to do &#8211; from walking it&#8217;s just a step or two before they expect you to join a school team &#8211; but if Silas thinks it&#8217;s a good idea, I guess it&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EmmaSleep.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/EmmaSleep.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Jemma, sleeping. Resting. Plotting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SilasJemmaAllie.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/SilasJemmaAllie.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jemma, Silas, and Allison (aka Mom). Notice the way that my sister &#8211; who is, among her other accomplishments, a <i>totally <\/i>cool feminist &#8211; is already teaching her son to nurture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SilasAndJemma.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/SilasAndJemma.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jemma and Silas together. This is now my desktop image.<\/p>\n<p>All photos by Tim Andersen.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=maxalt-35\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As dedicated &#8220;Alas&#8221; readers will recall, my nephew Silas was born October 16, 2002 and his sister Jemma two weeks ago. It&#8217;s long past time I posted more pictures, don&#8217;t you think? My family is lucky in that my brother-in-law &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-kid-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}