{"id":114,"date":"2007-06-04T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T05:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-06-04T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T05:28:30","slug":"this-ones-for-uncle-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/this-ones-for-uncle-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"This one&#8217;s for Uncle Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I printed out some pictures of far-away relatives for Ruby to see. One of them was my brother Michael (who lives in Singapore). Something about the phrase &#8220;Uncle Michael&#8221; tickled Ruby&#8217;s fancy and she repeated it, sort of. She kept saying it all day. I decided to capitalize on this and associate his picture with his name.<\/p>\n<p>For her first birthday, Michael gave Ruby a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Planes-At-Airport-Peter-Mandel\/dp\/0439564166\/ref=sr_1_1\/102-4641008-4192919?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=bigadventures\">book about airplanes<\/a>. So, I printed a tiny picture of his face and added him to the first page:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/airplane-book.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Airplane book\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/airplane-book.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Airplane book\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><font size=\"-2\">click for full-size<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then, I taped Ruby talking about it. The way she says &#8220;Uncle Michael&#8221; sounds like a cross between &#8220;taco&#8221; and &#8220;cuckoo&#8221;. Take a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W0flacvj5Gk\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W0flacvj5Gk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I printed out some pictures of far-away relatives for Ruby to see. One of them was my brother Michael (who lives in Singapore). Something about the phrase &#8220;Uncle Michael&#8221; tickled Ruby&#8217;s fancy and she repeated it, sort of. She kept saying it all day. I decided to capitalize on this and associate his picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}