{"id":545,"date":"2006-08-30T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=312"},"modified":"2006-08-30T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T18:11:50","slug":"sorry-uncle-colin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Sorry Uncle Colin."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image311\" title=\"cartoon_baby.jpg\" alt=\"cartoon_baby.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/cartoon_baby.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Well, unfortunately for my camera, I am forced to stand corrected.\u00a0 We confirmed this morning that we are, in fact, having a little bambina.\u00a0 I&#8217;m shocked.\u00a0 Happy and elated.\u00a0 But shocked.<\/p>\n<p>So here goes.\u00a0 Dan was right.\u00a0 I was wrong.\u00a0 I will likely never live this down.\u00a0 The moral of the story is that confidence is best when you actually have fact to back it up.\u00a0 Apparently, intuition\u00a0is not all that reliable.<\/p>\n<p>Dan:\u00a0 I guess we are going video game shopping.\u00a0 Damn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kris:\u00a0 Peanut Butter Pie is on me.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s go soon.\u00a0 (No one else took me up on my offer.\u00a0 Suckers.)<\/p>\n<p>Angela:\u00a0 Man I have a big mouth.\u00a0 My last minute promise to you was probably not the best idea &#8211; but I look forward to it.\u00a0 Name the time and place.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll just have to make sure they serve big helpings of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/articles\/eatcrow.htm\">humble pie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My apologies to all of you (Liz, Jen, Lisa, in particular) who had confidence in my confidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The excellent news is that all seems well.\u00a0 Peanut is progressing as she should be and it looks like we&#8217;re on track for having a healthy little one.\u00a0 Music to my ears.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, unfortunately for my camera, I am forced to stand corrected.\u00a0 We confirmed this morning that we are, in fact, having a little bambina.\u00a0 I&#8217;m shocked.\u00a0 Happy and elated.\u00a0 But shocked. So here goes.\u00a0 Dan was right.\u00a0 I was wrong.\u00a0 I will likely never live this down.\u00a0 The moral of the story is that confidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}