{"id":214,"date":"2006-09-18T22:21:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T22:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=214"},"modified":"2006-09-18T22:21:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T22:21:01","slug":"deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2006\/09\/18\/deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/2006.09.18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-823\" title=\"2006.09.18\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/2006.09.18-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>I got to deliver two things last week: a best-man toast &#8230; and a baby. To my surprise, the culmination of spending 2 weeks on L&amp;D to the actual hands-on delivery of a baby was pretty anti-climactic in retrospect. I experienced no big epiphany on the wonder of life &#8211; just slimy baby sliding out with lots of smelly bodily fluids splattering about. In contrast, toasting at my friend&#8217;s wedding this past Saturday was a lot more nerve-wracking than I had imagined. Despite all my experiences teaching classes and giving seminars over the past few years, I still get the butterflies whenever I speak publicly. It didn&#8217;t help, of course, that the videographer&#8217;s got his bright-ass spotlight on me the whole time. Fortunately, it was over in a cinch. Now that the groom is happily married and honeymooning in the Greek islands, I&#8217;m gonna have to embark on another pain-in-my-brain study week for the Ob-Gyn shelf exam this Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to deliver two things last week: a best-man toast &#8230; and a baby. To my surprise, the culmination of spending 2 weeks on L&amp;D to the actual hands-on delivery of a baby was pretty anti-climactic in retrospect. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2006\/09\/18\/deliveries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}