{"id":2673,"date":"2010-01-06T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/06\/a-new-decade"},"modified":"2010-01-06T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:09:00","slug":"a-new-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2010\/01\/06\/a-new-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"A new decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told Ben that I couldn&#8217;t believe another decade has passed.\u00a0 &#8220;Really?&#8221; he asked, &#8220;I can.\u00a0 We had a lot happen in the last ten years.&#8221;\u00a0 We thought of all the momentous things that happened to us in the aughts.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most of our courtship and our marriage<\/li>\n<li>All of my undergrad education<\/li>\n<li>My first real job as a research assistant<\/li>\n<li>Completing a second degree<\/li>\n<li>My second real job as a nurse<\/li>\n<li>Most of Ben&#8217;s college years<\/li>\n<li>Numerous jobs for Ben<\/li>\n<li>Moving five times in three cities<\/li>\n<li>Buying our first house<\/li>\n<li>Buying my first car<\/li>\n<li>Buying my first new car<\/li>\n<li>Travel too numerous to count<\/li>\n<li>Thousands of knit stitches<\/li>\n<li>Thousands of video games<\/li>\n<li>A movie-making phase<\/li>\n<li>A ballet revival phase <\/li>\n<li>Getting a cat<\/li>\n<li>Getting a dog<\/li>\n<li>Three computers for me, who knows how many for Ben?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ok, proven wrong.\u00a0 I guess it seems right that ten years have passed, given all the growth we&#8217;ve had.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to start a new adventure this year.\u00a0 For those who haven&#8217;t heard yet, we&#8217;re having a baby in May.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m 21 weeks pregnant.\u00a0 Want to know why I was so quiet in the blogosphere in October and November?\u00a0 That&#8217;s called the first trimester and it BLOWS!\u00a0 But those times are past, I feel pretty great these days.\u00a0 The little kid has finally made itself known to me.\u00a0 Just in the past week I started feeling movement.\u00a0 Now I swear it&#8217;s doing somersaults in there.\u00a0 Tomorrow we have the big ultrasound to find out if our first will be a little boy or little girl.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t care which, I just want to know!\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be sure to let you all know too, and perhaps I&#8217;ll fill in some details on how the pregnancy has been so far.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year and here&#8217;s to ten more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told Ben that I couldn&#8217;t believe another decade has passed.\u00a0 &#8220;Really?&#8221; he asked, &#8220;I can.\u00a0 We had a lot happen in the last ten years.&#8221;\u00a0 We thought of all the momentous things that happened to us in the aughts.\u00a0 Most of our courtship and our marriage All of my undergrad education My first real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}