{"id":6103,"date":"2017-03-24T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/?p=6103"},"modified":"2025-01-19T01:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T01:28:29","slug":"the-hunt-for-giggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/?p=6103","title":{"rendered":"The Hunt For Giggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logan has not giggled yet, but not for lack of trying.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got him to laugh, to smile, to imitate some of the sounds I make, even some little high pitched almost screams of joy, but no giggles.<\/p>\n<p>We lay on the floor and talk a lot and he seems to enjoy it just fine, but to really get him going, I do that Dad thing where I raise and lower him above my head, laughing manically, and giving him loud raspberry kisses on the cheek when I bring him down to my face, like so:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6113\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image1-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6113\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image1-165x300.jpg 165w, http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image1.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignore the beanie, his mother dressed him.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We are THIS CLOSE to giggles. Right now my mission in life is not to raise a polite boy who becomes a good man. Fuck that noise, that&#8217;s for amateurs. Right now my mission is to hear our boy giggle. We&#8217;ll keep trying.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to come&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan has not giggled yet, but not for lack of trying. I&#8217;ve got him to laugh, to smile, to imitate some of the sounds I make, even some little high pitched almost screams of joy, but no giggles. We lay on the floor and talk a lot and he seems to enjoy it just fine,&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/?p=6103\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dad-stuff","category-kid-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6128,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions\/6128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}