{"id":210,"date":"2009-02-21T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=210"},"modified":"2009-02-21T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T08:22:08","slug":"croup-is-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2009\/02\/21\/croup-is-poop\/","title":{"rendered":"Croup is Poop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/finnegan\/images\/tinypix\/croupier.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"150\" align=\"left\"> Ah, poor little Finno has come down with quite the intense cough and cold!  His upper lip is doing a great recreation of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdntoyassn.com\/images\/DynatechSlip%20n%20Slide_med.jpg\">Slip n&#8217; Slide<\/a>&#8212;<i>blech!<\/i><br \/>\nThe two of us have been kicking it bachelor-style for a few days while Margot visits some pals in Seattle.  I&#8217;m typing this after midnight, listening to the monitor and hoping the whole thing doesn&#8217;t become a full-blown case of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Croup\">croup<\/a>.  At least Carol has had some experiences with that sort of badness &#038; was able to set me up with some health info yesterday (e.g. if your child wakes up coughing and crying, run a hot shower for 15 minutes for the steam, then take him outside to the cold night air for 10 minutes).<br \/>\nWe miss mama, but she&#8217;ll be back soon enough tomorrow evening.  In the meantime, Finn had the freaky experience of hearing her on the phone; <i>many<\/i> quizzical looks followed.  We went for a long walk this evening, and he was good as gold until *exactly* the maximally distant point, so I ended up carrying him the 1.5 miles home (and here I&#8217;d been complaining that I get no exercise ;-)).<br \/>\nNearing home, Finn spied some balloons attached to a sign and lunged back at them.  He was really fascinated, so we went inside and I splurged for a pair&#8211;$2.17 very well spent!  Now in addition to learning about (and shouting) &#8220;Down!&#8221; (i.e. where he keeps dropping his dishes), he can learn about &#8220;Up!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, poor little Finno has come down with quite the intense cough and cold! His upper lip is doing a great recreation of a Slip n&#8217; Slide&#8212;blech! The two of us have been kicking it bachelor-style for a few days while Margot visits some pals in Seattle. I&#8217;m typing this after midnight, listening to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}