{"id":1300,"date":"2009-10-25T12:57:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T17:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2009-10-28T20:01:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T01:01:34","slug":"its-a-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a boy!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/MyGrandson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_MyGrandson.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\"  width=\"200\" \/><\/a>My first grandchild, Karl Thomas Wallbruch, was born yesterday at 5:27 pm, Central time, at Central DuPage Hospital.\u00a0 He weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 21&amp;1\/4 inches long.\u00a0 Fortunately he takes after me and is thus a very handsome fellow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mother and son are now both doing fine.\u00a0 Karl was fine upon delivery, but my daughter began to lose blood about a half-hour after giving birth.\u00a0 She spent several hours in surgery and then recovery and is now finally back &#8216;among the living&#8217;.\u00a0 She lost over 4 units of blood.\u00a0 All I can say is &#8220;Modern medicine rocks!&#8221; &#8211; these are the kinds of childbirth that in earlier times usually resulted in unhappy outcomes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_BabyAstronaut.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"185\"  width=\"200\" \/>We are all happy and breathing easier now and I&#8217;m thrilled and proud to have a grandson.\u00a0 I turned 60 a couple of months ago and now I have a grand-child.\u00a0 I guess this makes it official &#8211; I&#8217;m getting old&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And now back to our regularly scheduled programming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on the thumbnail of Me, Karl &amp; Chris to see a full-size version of the picture) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first grandchild, Karl Thomas Wallbruch, was born yesterday at 5:27 pm, Central time, at Central DuPage Hospital.\u00a0 He weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 21&amp;1\/4 inches long.\u00a0 Fortunately he takes after me and is thus a very handsome fellow&#8230; Mother and son are now both doing fine.\u00a0 Karl was fine upon delivery, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}