{"id":10921,"date":"2020-01-18T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=10921"},"modified":"2020-01-12T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T16:21:47","slug":"the-smell-of-a-newborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=10921","title":{"rendered":"The smell of a newborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The smell of a newborn causes you to pause<\/p>\n<p>There are no insurmountable issues,<\/p>\n<p>no unspeakable worries,<\/p>\n<p>when one catches the hint of<\/p>\n<p>the odour of innocence<\/p>\n<p>a damp, wet, powdery smell\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With it comes a joy and wonderment and<\/p>\n<p>thankfulness for dreams and prayers answered<\/p>\n<p>There is a lightened sense of the present, like knowing<\/p>\n<p>the world can stop spinning and our souls will rest<\/p>\n<p>with a sheer contentment for this all too brief moment<\/p>\n<p>when we\u2019re privileged to hold a sleeping newborn to our chest<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Chris George<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2004<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smell of a newborn causes you to pause There are no insurmountable issues, no unspeakable worries, when one catches the hint of the odour of innocence a damp, wet, powdery smell\u2026 &nbsp; With it comes a joy and wonderment and thankfulness for dreams and prayers answered There is a lightened sense of the present,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10923,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions\/10923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}