{"id":557,"date":"2010-01-04T02:04:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/?p=557"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:23:15","slug":"awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/2010\/01\/awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange how knowing something about yourself sends ripples out that affect your perspective on so many things. What you know can be a good thing or a bad one. In this case, being pregnant (definitely a good thing), I find myself wondering if that queasiness is because of the life starting to form inside me or if I would normally feel that way. I am more concerned about my body: am I tired, hungry, thirsty, hot, cold? And the hand drifts down to the belly, just to rest there a little while.<\/p>\n<p>Part of me wants large flashing signs updating me on what is going on inside me. &#8220;Yyyyyesssss! Another cell has split! Look at that ectoderm forming!&#8221; It&#8217;s big news. Yet really not much is visibly happening. I have to be patient and wait to see what is coming, wait for those physical signs of developing life (when my body will be adapted to someone else&#8217;s needs), wait for a doctor to tell me in the weeks to come so many things that we just can&#8217;t know right now. Pregnancy is anticipation, preparation&#8230;and waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange how knowing something about yourself sends ripples out that affect your perspective on so many things. What you know can be a good thing or a bad one. In this case, being pregnant (definitely a good thing), I find myself wondering if that queasiness is because of the life starting to form inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}