{"id":2720,"date":"2004-05-25T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2004-05-25T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T18:38:18","slug":"rewombion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/25\/rewombion\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewombion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen, on The Squirrelly:  &#8220;He has a big nose.  He must have gotten yours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one reason why cloning will never catch on, right there:  the inability to attribute undesirable attributes in your offspring to a mate.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday we went to a reunion for all the parents who were in our childbirth education class.  I met ten brand new babies and, bizarrely, was able to remember each and every one of their names.  This is very unusual, as I have no head for names at all.   In fact, I couldn&#8217;t remember the names of any of the parents at the party, and wound up calling them things like &#8220;Lucy&#8217;s father&#8221; and &#8220;genetic contributor to Sam.&#8221;   So if you ever meet me in person and want to make sure I remember your name, try spitting up or pooping in your pants immediately after we shake hands &#8212; maybe that will help.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the event was a group photo, where all the newborns were shoehorned into a couch and many a snapshot was taken.<\/p>\n<div align='center'><a href='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/16\/20554723_3c03510945_o.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/16\/20554723_3c03510945.jpg'><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Squirrely is second from the left, showing off his tie-dyed socks and his preternatural ability to slouch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably best that no one overheard me tell The Queen that it looked like &#8220;a dingo buffet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen, on The Squirrelly: &#8220;He has a big nose. He must have gotten yours.&#8221; There&#8217;s one reason why cloning will never catch on, right there: the inability to attribute undesirable attributes in your offspring to a mate. Saturday we went to a reunion for all the parents who were in our childbirth education class. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-squirrelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}