{"id":299,"date":"2011-07-06T22:12:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T03:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/insights\/from-bed-no-1\/"},"modified":"2011-07-06T22:12:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T03:12:21","slug":"from-bed-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/2011\/from-bed-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bed, No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m becoming a dad.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that could be scary, and there are things that I&#8217;m scared about. But being scared, being afraid, is usually about knowing something could happen, that you have no control over, and fearing it out of sheer instinct.<\/p>\n<p>That knowledge doesn&#8217;t make all the what-if&#8217;s less scary. But it does mean that I don&#8217;t need to be blindly afraid of them. Because I can control myself, and my reaction to that fear.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that I&#8217;m not worried about is being a good dad. I am actually luckier than most in that I have two really great examples of strong, kind fathers. If I can follow in their footsteps, I&#8217;ll be a great father. If I can improve in any way, all the better.<\/p>\n<p>I know the routine for Delivery Day. I know where to go, I have all the numbers in my phone to call, and I know what should happen, and generally what&#8217;s likely to go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>So I remain patient and yet anxious. Time is going fast and slow simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>All this to say, I&#8217;m adjusting to a new perspective. I&#8217;m excited about the final Harry Potter. I&#8217;m awaiting the new iPhone with baited breath. But these kinds of things aren&#8217;t even on the same chart as my joy and wonder at becoming a father. This is the next challenge. This is the greatest thing I will ever do. And I can&#8217;t wait to get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m becoming a dad. I guess that could be scary, and there are things that I&#8217;m scared about. But being scared, being afraid, is usually about knowing something could happen, that you have no control over, and fearing it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/2011\/from-bed-no-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}