{"id":691,"date":"2006-10-03T00:05:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T04:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/03\/a-portrait-of-the-blogger-as-a-very-young-man\/"},"modified":"2006-10-02T23:54:29","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T03:54:29","slug":"a-portrait-of-the-blogger-as-a-very-young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/a-portrait-of-the-blogger-as-a-very-young-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A Portrait of the Blogger As A (Very) Young Man."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom recently sent me some photographs from my childhood, and they are amusing the hell out of me&#8211;not least because having now made it through the first two years of parenthood the notion that I was once a baby has some more visceral meaning for me.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I present Mr. McLaren, age six weeks:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/09\/sixweeks.jpg\" width=\"361\" height=\"357\" alt=\"Six Weeks\" title=\"Six Weeks\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, the slightly less demure looking-you-right-in-the-eyes version:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/09\/sixweeks2.jpg\" width=\"397\" height=\"239\" alt=\"Six weeks\" title=\"Six weeks\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I apologize for the image quality, but cheap prints do not age well over the course of almost 33 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">My mom recently sent me some photographs from my childhood, and they are amusing the hell out of me&#8211;not least because having now made it through the first two years of parenthood the notion that I was once a baby has some more visceral meaning for me. Anyway, I present Mr. McLaren, age six weeks: And, the slightly less demure&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/a-portrait-of-the-blogger-as-a-very-young-man\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-b9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}