{"id":726,"date":"2011-09-19T15:11:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/?p=726"},"modified":"2011-09-19T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T22:11:20","slug":"the-weigh-off-simon-vs-ginger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/the-weigh-off-simon-vs-ginger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weigh-off: Simon vs. Ginger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon&#8217;s 2-month pediatrician&#8217;s visit on Thursday made it official: He weighs 11 lbs., 11 oz., sans diaper. That&#8217;s an ounce more than Ginger, who is clocking a steady 11 lbs. 10 oz. She doesn&#8217;t wear diapers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Ginger at her latest weigh-in. The dial is off because she was squirming. I pet her and she purred, so we were able to get an accurate measure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_735\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1020072-e1316405575988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-735\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-735\" title=\"P1020072\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1020072-e1316405575988-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1020072-e1316405575988-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1020072-e1316405575988-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginger weighs in before the fight.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Simon doesn&#8217;t enjoy being weighed either. When I put him in the laundry basket lined with clothes (dirty), he got his tiny little toes stuck in the slots and started screaming.<\/p>\n<p>I like to weigh things. Here&#8217;s a chart from when the chickens were just fluffy little chicks. I weighed them almost daily until they moved outside to the coop. I was also charting daily egg production for a while but that stopped when Simon came.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChickensNov2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-753\" title=\"ChickensNov2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChickensNov2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChickensNov2010.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChickensNov2010-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve promised not to weigh Simon more than once a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon&#8217;s 2-month pediatrician&#8217;s visit on Thursday made it official: He weighs 11 lbs., 11 oz., sans diaper. That&#8217;s an ounce more than Ginger, who is clocking a steady 11 lbs. 10 oz. She doesn&#8217;t wear diapers. Here&#8217;s Ginger at her latest weigh-in. The dial is off because she was squirming. I pet her and she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-felis-catus-var-ginger","category-h-sapiens-var-simon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}