{"id":15,"date":"2011-03-18T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2013-01-21T03:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T03:10:26","slug":"wonderfully-disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Wonderfully Disturbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Last night Anne experienced a distinct <b>moment of quickening<\/b>. For you non-parentals out there, this is the term that refers to the sensation of fetal movement. As we saw from ultrasounds very early on, the baby is moving constantly in there, but it takes a while for the mother to actually feel that movement. Anne said it felt like a few gentle pokes. I imagine it felt more like the image below.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-7jtmasWHIes\/TYOBhM7UUcI\/AAAAAAAABDE\/xUzebyUZnbs\/s1600\/The_Quickening.jpg\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-7jtmasWHIes\/TYOBhM7UUcI\/AAAAAAAABDE\/xUzebyUZnbs\/s1600\/The_Quickening.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>I felt the baby move!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span>You see how that joke worked on multiple levels? I&#8217;m like the James Joyce of bloggers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t fully get the image-joke, then you fail at movie trivia. Which means you&#8217;ll probably also fail at <a href=\"http:\/\/famousobjectsfromclassicmovies.com\/\">this very entertaining movie trivia challenge<\/a>. I got 59 right 39 wrong before I stopped. Beat THAT! (OK, you can sort of get some of them by guessing letters and hypothesizing words identifications.)<\/p>\n<p><span>I&#8217;ve always wondered what it would be like to experience a moment of quickening. It sort of seems like something in between something deeply wonderful and deeply disturbing. The wonderful feeling of your child&#8217;s burgeoning awareness, and the\u00a0<\/span><span>growing\u00a0<\/span><span>bond between you. Also a reminder that there is a living thing inside you clawing at you, like in Alien. Wonderfully disturbing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Anne experienced a distinct moment of quickening. For you non-parentals out there, this is the term that refers to the sensation of fetal movement. As we saw from ultrasounds very early on, the baby is moving constantly in there, but it takes a while for the mother to actually feel that movement. Anne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicypeanut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}