{"id":54,"date":"2011-03-02T22:53:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/?p=54"},"modified":"2011-03-03T05:02:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T05:02:10","slug":"biological-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Biological clock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/puppyBaby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/puppyBaby-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"puppyBaby\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/puppyBaby-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/puppyBaby.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPuppy photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/greatswissmountaindogblog.com\/\">Great Swiss Mountain Dog Blog<a\/><\/p>\n<p>I had a realization while driving my car to work today that I am nothing but a creature of habit. I&#8217;m attacking this puppy research just as ferociously as when I was pregnant the first time. For months and months, Brian and I spent evenings researching child birth methods, birth centers, midwives, and child rearing techniques. It was really obsessive and we drove our friends nuts  with our opinions from everything from drugs vs no drugs to formula vs breast feeding. <\/p>\n<p>So this morning I realized that Gavin is exactly two and half years old&#8230; <em>the EXACT age when we felt the desire to try for number 2.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ACK! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN????<\/p>\n<p>Is this puppy a new expression of my biological clock? Am I just replacing the desire for another baby with a puppy? <\/p>\n<p>Ok so what if I am? Does it change anything really? Are we still going to get a Swissy? <strong>Yes.<\/strong> <em>*well..hopefully.* <\/em>  I mean, wouldn&#8217;t you want the next family member to be thought of and taken care of in the same way as a baby human?  <em>(Remembering this IS a dog and not a human with lots of fur?) <\/em> <strong>Of course!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the problem? Besides I&#8217;m a little whack-a-doodle? <em>(Which you already knew anyways.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nothing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puppy photo from Great Swiss Mountain Dog Blog I had a realization while driving my car to work today that I am nothing but a creature of habit. I&#8217;m attacking this puppy research just as ferociously as when I was pregnant the first time. For months and months, Brian and I spent evenings researching child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-crazy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}