{"id":108,"date":"2007-03-25T21:46:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/2007\/03\/25\/sitting\/"},"modified":"2007-03-25T21:46:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T04:46:27","slug":"sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/2007\/03\/25\/sitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niko is sitting on his own now, which opens up a whole new dimension of playing. In fact, I believe many babies learn to sit for the single reason that it makes it much easier to play with Legos. It is remarkably hard to play with Legos while laying on your back. The stomach doesn&#8217;t leave you any hands free. Legos are the pinnacle of playing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyinwater.com\/life\/archives\/2006\/12\/18\/childhood-dream-of-trampolines-fulfilled\/\">outside of trampolines and zip lines<\/a>), so sitting is critical.<\/p>\n<p>He isn&#8217;t all that stable; a gentle breeze can tip him over. But it is progress none the less. Step 1, sitting. Step 2, Olympic swim team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/happyinwater\/434619069\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/145\/434619069_6652081ef6.jpg\" class=\"tt-flickr\" alt=\"Sitting\" height=\"291\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/happyinwater\/434619483\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/147\/434619483_ec79291e6a.jpg\" class=\"tt-flickr\" alt=\"Sitting, sitting\" height=\"292\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niko is sitting on his own now, which opens up a whole new dimension of playing. In fact, I believe many babies learn to sit for the single reason that it makes it much easier to play with Legos. It is remarkably hard to play with Legos while laying on your back. The stomach doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinwater.com\/nicholas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}