{"id":47,"date":"2008-06-29T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T00:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-06-29T17:30:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T00:30:29","slug":"social-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Social Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one told me that having a baby drastically diminishes your social skills.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe this is a phenomenon that doesn&#8217;t happen to everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe my social skills already sucked.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the pre-existing conditions, I find it incredibly difficult to carry on a conversation that doesn&#8217;t revolve around my baby.\u00c2\u00a0 Believe me, I can see why this would be boring for most people, and I pity the folks that get stuck talking to me a parties, but I&#8217;m also amazed how the combination of baby focus 24\/7 and sleep deprivation really turn me into a social blob.<\/p>\n<p>We went to three BBQ&#8217;s this weekend &#8211; I was able to carry on fun conversation at one of them &#8211; it was the baby class reunion BBQ!\u00c2\u00a0 Has my life been reduced to a series of awkward conversations where people politely inch away from me and run for the hills?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well&#8230;just another thing I can add to my list of things I did before having baby that I can no longer do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one told me that having a baby drastically diminishes your social skills.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe this is a phenomenon that doesn&#8217;t happen to everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe my social skills already sucked.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the pre-existing conditions, I find it incredibly difficult to carry on a conversation that doesn&#8217;t revolve around my baby.\u00c2\u00a0 Believe me, I can see why [&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":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}