{"id":129,"date":"2006-05-24T18:07:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/what-are-you-smiling-about\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T18:13:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T23:13:43","slug":"what-are-you-smiling-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/what-are-you-smiling-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What are you smiling about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We acknowledge that the human smile is a psycho-physiological phenomenon, and that until newborns attain [1] control of their facial muscles and [2] perception of their surroundings it&#8217;s literally nonsense to say they&#8217;re truly smiling. Every once in a while, though, Lucy&#8217;s face cracks a grin on its own. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ann has picked up an uncanny sense for when these are about to occur, so when she told me to grab the camera Monday night because Lucy was &#8220;about to smile,&#8221; I obeyed. Sure enough, we caught a couple of them as they flitted across her face.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image130\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/smiles.jpg\" alt=\"Double smile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What an adorable smile! We can&#8217;t wait till she&#8217;s treating us to these all the time.<\/p>\n<p>(Why does Lucy look so greasy in this photo, you ask? She hadn&#8217;t yet had her first bath, which we gave her only last night. So you can expect a cleaner-looking visage in future pictures.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We acknowledge that the human smile is a psycho-physiological phenomenon, and that until newborns attain [1] control of their facial muscles and [2] perception of their surroundings it&#8217;s literally nonsense to say they&#8217;re truly smiling. Every once in a while, though, Lucy&#8217;s face cracks a grin on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}