{"id":1878,"date":"2021-08-23T16:41:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2021-08-23T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:41:58","slug":"baby-sitter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Baby Sitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/300-Oddy-Baby-Sitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"878\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/300-Oddy-Baby-Sitter-878x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/300-Oddy-Baby-Sitter-878x1024.jpg 878w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/300-Oddy-Baby-Sitter-257x300.jpg 257w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/300-Oddy-Baby-Sitter-768x895.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/300-Oddy-Baby-Sitter.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>At first we thought all the babies blew up.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp;<strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We found them that way in the morning.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They\u2019d suddenly grown to enormous size!&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We had no idea\u2026no warning.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Well, people freaked out.&nbsp; They lost their minds,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(and some of us got really drunk),&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;but didn\u2019t take TOO long to understand,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>that THEY didn\u2019t grow\u2026..WE SHRUNK!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***I&#8217;m hoping this will be the last rough sketch image we post from the new &#8216;Body-Oddies&#8217; book before it comes out.  Still, it&#8217;s a good one with a good rhymed ditty to go with it (even though the rhymed ditties didn&#8217;t make it into the book).   -Marsha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first we thought all the babies blew up.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We found them that way in the morning.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1878\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baby Sitter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118],"tags":[302,210,248,301,99,257,96,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}