{"id":42,"date":"2004-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:49:40","slug":"babys-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Baby&#8217;s block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cube.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cube-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tasty cube\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I got this new block thing from my grand-dad&#8230; a bunch of blocks which, according to the instructions, are supposed to stimulate my <em>pincer grasp<\/em> and augment my manual dexterity. The problem is I can&#8217;t seem to get past this inexplicable urge to taste it and lick it all over. I dunno&#8230; it&#8217;s just bigger than me.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like such a failure sometimes&#8230; I mean, I really want to explore my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycenter.com\/0_developmental-milestones-grasping_6578.bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pincer grasping abilities<\/a> and I truly hate to miss the milestones cuz I know the parental units are tracking them&#8230; but it just looks so gosh-darned edible that I lose my self-control.\u00a0 One of my colleagues at the breast-feeding clinic has a mom who is an occupational therapist&#8230; perhaps I should arrange for a consult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this new block thing from my grand-dad&#8230; a bunch of blocks which, according to the instructions, are supposed to stimulate my pincer grasp and augment my manual dexterity. The problem is I can&#8217;t seem to get past this inexplicable urge to taste it and lick it all over. I dunno&#8230; it&#8217;s just bigger <a href=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/?p=42\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","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\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}