{"id":47,"date":"2005-08-16T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T01:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2005-08-16T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T01:15:26","slug":"pass-the-kleenex-self-portrait-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"pass the kleenex self portrait tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_2253.JPG\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_2253.JPG','popup','width=800,height=533,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_2253-tm.jpg\" height=\"183\" width=\"275\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 2253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chas has evolved into this dense chunk of loveliness that stops my heart mid-beat; I have to remember to breathe. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the hobbit-baby hair, long strawberry blonde pouring over his ears and face, or if it&#8217;s his huge top teeth set a mile apart from each other and opposing two tiny bottom teeth, or his cosmic blue eyes. Or if it&#8217;s the Proof of God that I see as I watch him sleep, with leaden eyelids. But it&#8217;s arresting, his presence. Of course, at other times I&#8217;m too distracted to sit in awe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chas has evolved into this dense chunk of loveliness that stops my heart mid-beat; I have to remember to breathe. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the hobbit-baby hair, long strawberry blonde pouring over his ears and face, or if it&#8217;s his huge top teeth set a mile apart from each other and opposing two tiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chas","category-daily","category-self-portrait-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}