{"id":101,"date":"2008-04-21T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-04-21T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T14:22:00","slug":"concepticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/concepticon\/","title":{"rendered":"Concepticon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SAyjhe6AXrI\/AAAAAAAAAP4\/Ujtu-KI05nU\/s1600-h\/concepticon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191704266078707378\" style=\"CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SAyjhe6AXrI\/AAAAAAAAAP4\/Ujtu-KI05nU\/s320\/concepticon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just got the good news this morning. My wife is pregnant with our fourth child. I&#8217;m pretty stoked. We&#8217;ve been <em>working<\/em> at this for about a year.<br \/>.<br \/>The official story is that the child was conceived at Adepticon. Now that&#8217;s good gamer mojo!<br \/>.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SAymHu6AXsI\/AAAAAAAAAQA\/IshX22CsQrU\/s1600-h\/baby40k+copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191707122231959234\" style=\"CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SAymHu6AXsI\/AAAAAAAAAQA\/IshX22CsQrU\/s320\/baby40k+copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong>Other Gately baby trivia<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have three children ages three, six and eight. <\/li>\n<li>Each child was born in a different state: Oregon, California and Utah.<\/li>\n<li>All of them were born &#8220;mind over matter&#8221; style with no medical intervention. Tamie is like some kind of goddess with that.<\/li>\n<li>I want to have five kids, Tamie wants three, so we compromised on four. If the business goes well, we might adopt!<\/li>\n<li>When we got married I didn&#8217;t want to have any kids at all. At the time I characterized babies as &#8220;the scourge of the earth&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>When I got the news that my wife was pregnant with my first child, my thought was &#8220;well, there goes my freedom&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>My heart changed the day my eldest, a daughter, was born. You can actually see it on the tape. I keep repeating &#8220;she&#8217;s so beautiful&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I became an expert at managing children as a fourth-grade teacher.<\/li>\n<li>Tamie is a stay at home mom and loves every minute of it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PS- If you feel inclined to send a &#8220;congratulations&#8221; you can do so right here on the blog.  But don&#8217;t feel obligated, I&#8217;m OK with that.  I&#8217;m not good at that sort of thing either.  Also, there is a remote chance this could be a false alarm; but I was so excited I couldn&#8217;t hold it in!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got the good news this morning. My wife is pregnant with our fourth child. I&#8217;m pretty stoked. We&#8217;ve been working at this for about a year..The official story is that the child was conceived at Adepticon. Now that&#8217;s good gamer mojo!.Other Gately baby trivia We have three children ages three, six and eight. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}