{"id":2841,"date":"2016-02-09T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2016-02-09T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:40:50","slug":"the-new-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2016\/02\/09\/the-new-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesefortunecalendar.com\/2016\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2844\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016.02.09.a.gif\" alt=\"2016.02.09.a\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016.02.09.b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2845\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016.02.09.b-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"2016.02.09.b\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>To celebrate Chinese New Year, I invited my retina colleagues and fellows for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/asian-pearl-2009-sacramento-2\">dim sum<\/A> this weekend, which had a great turnout including everyone&#8217;s families and kids. Little did we know that this would also be our last meal out as a couple. Today, my wife called to tell me that our C-section had to be scheduled for this evening, 2-weeks before our due date. With the help of my awesome team, I got out of clinic early and made it to the hospital in time for our first baby&#8217;s arrival. We spent our last hours on the labor floor frantically finishing clinic notes, requesting coverage, and tying up loose ends at work and lab. Fortunately, our OB was on-call this evening, and Melody&#8217;s colleagues were all there for support before we rolled into the OR. Weighing in at 5lb 12oz, Westley Ka-Shing Yiu arrived into our world, just making the 2nd of the lunar calendar new year and just in time to get a red envelope from both sets of grandparents. We sat in the recovering room looking at each other. &#8220;I guess we&#8217;re doing this,&#8221; she said. Ready or not, here we go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate Chinese New Year, I invited my retina colleagues and fellows for dim sum this weekend, which had a great turnout including everyone&#8217;s families and kids. Little did we know that this would also be our last meal out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2016\/02\/09\/the-new-monkey\/\">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-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","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=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}