{"id":4406,"date":"2008-07-15T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:18:07","slug":"this-whole-new-dimension-of-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4406","title":{"rendered":"This whole new dimension of emotion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, I&#8217;ve been dating <lj user=\"nitoria\"> for quite a while now.  Just over eight months, to be precise.  We&#8217;ve had our ups and downs, and we&#8217;ve helped each other progress through a lot of our emotional baggage, and I&#8217;ve explored this whole new dimension of emotion &#8211; the Fatherhood Zone.  Her two kids, Hunter and Aidan, are pretty much awesomesauce, except, of course, when they&#8217;re not.  Heh.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>Okay, yes, I lifted that word from Wil Wheaton.  *sigh*<\/p>\n<p>I am in love with this woman, and I love her kids.  They have made me a part of their family, fully and truly.  Hell, I&#8217;m carrying around pictures of children in my wallet.  Something changed for me on Father&#8217;s Day.  Rather, something changed -in- me.  Something clicked.  And I&#8217;m glad that it did.<\/p>\n<p>What the crap am I rambling about?  Okay, fine, I&#8217;ll try to be succinct. (FAIL!)<\/p>\n<p>If we can find a place in time, she and I and her children will be moving in together next month.  My apartment complex apparently has a deluge of requests for apartments, and they&#8217;re practically booting me out the door.  If not, it&#8217;ll be early November.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, and more importantly, when it comes to the 24\/7 glowing and smiling that I&#8217;ve been doing, I&#8217;m going to be a father.  She is in the family way, as they used to say (probably in the times of the Scarlet Letter, but I always liked that phrase).  As far as we can tell, in about eight months from now, I&#8217;ll be distributing George Burns sticks of doom to many people. :)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, I&#8217;ve been dating for quite a while now. Just over eight months, to be precise. We&#8217;ve had our ups and downs, and we&#8217;ve helped each other progress through a lot of our emotional baggage, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4406\">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":{"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":[],"tags":[8,34],"class_list":["post-4406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-adventures-in-parenthood","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-194","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7609,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions\/7609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}