{"id":380,"date":"2008-05-01T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:51:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T01:51:53","slug":"my-last-brin-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"My Last Brin. Really."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not ten minutes ago, my brother-in-law <lj user=\"billroper\"> called to let us know that they had gotten The Call, and               he and my sister Gretchen (<lj user=\"daisy-knotwise\">)  were on their way to Madison, as their second and last child had               just been born there.<\/p>\n<p>Those who haven&apos;t been following Contra for very long may not know               <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\/june2006.htm#06-08-2006\">precisely               what&apos;s going on here<\/a>, and I still boggle a little myself, SF               guy though I claim to be. Recapping: For medical reasons, my sister               cannot carry children to term herself. After conceiving <i>in vitro<\/i>               years ago and storing the embryos under liquid nitrogen, Gretchen               and Bill went off to find a gestational carrier to bring their children               to term. It wasn&apos;t exactly easy, but mission accomplished: Katie               Beth Roper now has a sister, born at 8:10 AM this morning, central               daylight time. Nine pounds nine ounces, no problems reported.<\/p>\n<p><i>Deo gratias<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>My immediate family is complete. We&apos;ll be on a plane Saturday to               head out there and celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not ten minutes ago, my brother-in-law called to let us know that they had gotten The Call, and he and my sister Gretchen () were on their way to Madison, as their second and last child had just been born there. Those who haven&apos;t been following Contra for very long may not know precisely what&apos;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}