{"id":244,"date":"2006-06-21T19:10:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/06\/second-letter-to-the-unborn-son\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T15:11:13","slug":"second-letter-to-the-unborn-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/second-letter-to-the-unborn-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Letter To The Unborn Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there, little guy.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not that different, you and I. At this moment in time, we both share the feeling of being the centre of the universe. Oh, sure, I don&#8217;t deny that the world existed before I was born, but I&#8217;ve never been able to imagine it. Even when watching grainy black &#038; white television footage from the fifties, I imagine that I must have been somewhere on the planet while it was all taking place. My lack of existence is inconceivable.<\/p>\n<p>But soon you will be born, and I know that it won&#8217;t seem so strange. Because I will have seen, with my own eyes, the world changing from a Bernardless one to a be-Bernarded one, and through this reflection I will at last appreciate that I too was created.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this to your mother, and she couldn&#8217;t grasp where I was coming from with this. I guess I always assumed that other people share my inability to imagine a world without themselves in it, but clearly I am wrong.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n<p>Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there, little guy. We&#8217;re not that different, you and I. At this moment in time, we both share the feeling of being the centre of the universe. Oh, sure, I don&#8217;t deny that the world existed before I was born, but I&#8217;ve never been able to imagine it. Even when watching grainy black &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}