{"id":1128,"date":"2007-12-18T08:48:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/contemplating-february-1st\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T08:48:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T13:48:30","slug":"contemplating-february-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/contemplating-february-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplating February 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to laugh.  Remember when<a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/why-i-will-always-think-of-jeff-probst-when-i-think-of-my-childbearing-years\/\"> I talked about <\/a>my obsession with Survivor and how it&#8217;s been deeply intertwined with my reproductive years?  I wrote about how Simon was born on the morning of the first episode of the first Survivor All-Stars season in 2004, and what a valiant effort I made to stay up late enough to watch it &#8211; from my hospital room &#8211; after being up since 6 am the morning before.<\/p>\n<p>So this week on the latest Survivor grand finale, Jeff Probst announced that the next Survivor series will be yet another all-star season, this one &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realitytvmagazine.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/16\/survivor-16-to-be-fans-versus-favorites\/\">fans versus favourites<\/a>&#8220;, and it&#8217;s scheduled to start February 7 &#8211; a week past my official due date of Febuary 1st.  Anyone want to lay a bet that I&#8217;ll be welcoming the new baby into the world by watching the first episode from my hospital bed &#8211; again?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">***<\/div>\n<p>The other thing about my due date of February 1 is that it&#8217;s Simon&#8217;s birthday.  How inconvenient!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking about boosting his birthday party up by a week or even two.  You think the average about-to-be four-year-old would notice?  Or care?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to laugh. Remember when I talked about my obsession with Survivor and how it&#8217;s been deeply intertwined with my reproductive years? I wrote about how Simon was born on the morning of the first episode of the first Survivor All-Stars season in 2004, and what a valiant effort I made to stay up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/contemplating-february-1st\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Contemplating February 1st&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postcards-from-my-uterus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}