{"id":984,"date":"2008-07-21T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=984"},"modified":"2008-07-23T07:16:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T14:16:54","slug":"teething-or-bubonic-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Teething – or bubonic plague"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zoe had a slight fever yesterday; since she didn’t have any other symptoms, we wondering if teething might be the culprit. (She’s still a little behind on getting her teeth, and it looks like her canines could pop through any day now.) We’ve blamed teething on all sorts of things (a fever, a runny nose, a bad mood, etc.) in the past, and I couldn’t help but be reminded today of a funny passage in a book (“Waiting for Birdy<\/a>“) given to me by a friend:<\/p>\n

“…Can we all agree that teething is a little overrated? I’m not saying that I wouldn’t find it very distracting and maybe even a little painful to have bicuspids poking up in my gums like arrowheads. I’m sure I would drool a lot, I’m sure I would complain. But teething seems to be the PMS of the parenting world – it is invoked to explain everything. Friends of mine used to bring their babies to our play group with 104-degree fevers and terrible consumptive coughs, and when I’d look alarmed, they’d just shake their heads: Teething<\/em>. Of course. Teething or, you know, the bubonic plague<\/em>. It also seems to account for all kinds of unsavory behavior. ‘Oh, is he teething?’ people used to ask sweetly when Ben was, say, going beserk in a parking lot. ‘Oh, no,’ I used to shake my head. ‘He’s just a bad baby.'”<\/p>\n

-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zoe had a slight fever yesterday; since she didn’t have any other symptoms, we wondering if teething might be the culprit. (She’s still a little behind on getting her teeth, and it looks like her canines could pop through any day now.) We’ve blamed teething on all sorts of things (a fever, a runny nose, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22nineteen-to-twenty-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}