{"id":36,"date":"2004-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:47:19","slug":"love-this-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Love this trick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cryengine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-35\" src=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cryengine-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cryengine-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cryengine-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cryengine.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I probably should&#8217;t admit to this cuz I&#8217;m probably violating some secret baby code of conduct&#8230; but I just love to do this. After a major cry-fest, I lay my head down on a parental unit&#8217;s chest and stay still for awhile until they think I&#8217;m asleep&#8230; all the while I&#8217;m listening to the thump-thump of their little hearts beating away until it returns to a steady thump&#8230;.thump.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when I start with a little curl of the lip, a wrinkle of the nose, crinkling of the eyes and then, the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance, a softly uttered &#8216;uhhhh.&#8217;\u00a0 Man, you should hear that heart go from thump-to-thud in no time.<\/p>\n<p>So fragile these creatures&#8230; gotta see what else I can do to freak them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably should&#8217;t admit to this cuz I&#8217;m probably violating some secret baby code of conduct&#8230; but I just love to do this. After a major cry-fest, I lay my head down on a parental unit&#8217;s chest and stay still for awhile until they think I&#8217;m asleep&#8230; all the while I&#8217;m listening to the thump-thump <a href=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/?p=36\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c37-mado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}