{"id":1145,"date":"2012-08-29T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T03:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2014-03-05T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T06:38:09","slug":"blueberry-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Blueberry Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we told Wayfare&#8217;s parents we were expecting, the fetus was roughly the size of a blueberry. The name stuck.<\/p>\n<p>When the ultrasound later told us we were going to have a baby girl, Wayfare ran out and bought a half dozen copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/0060838108\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=15121&#038;creative=330641&#038;creativeASIN=0060838108&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=blesbythepota-20\">Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.ca\/e\/ir?t=blesbythepota-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=15&#038;a=0060838108\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. Wrapping one up and placing it into the hands of our parents was our way of sharing the news: Blueberry is a girl.<\/p>\n<p>When she started kicking around inside Wayfare and we wanted her to know her daddy&#8217;s voice, when it was bedtime and everybody needed to settle down to sleep, I read Blueberry Girl to them both.<\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1120\">delivery was complicated<\/a> and she came out as blue as her namesake and the doctors were working on her, Wayfare was whispering. The words weren&#8217;t for me, she was away in some other place. If we were religious, I would have said it was a prayer&#8230; and in a way it was. She told me later: she was reciting Blueberry Girl.<\/p>\n<p>To the ladies of light, darkness and never-you-mind, the ladies of grace, favour and merciful night, and those ladies of paradox, measure, and ladies of shadows that fall: thank you for our Blueberry.<\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QH4lyJWa_84\">Neil Gaiman, thank you for the lovely words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\/wp-content\/Blueberry_girl.jpg><img src=\/wp-content\/Blueberry_girl_sm.jpg alt=\"Our blueberry girl. Click to embiggen.\" title=\"Our blueberry girl. Click to embiggen.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we told Wayfare&#8217;s parents we were expecting, the fetus was roughly the size of a blueberry. The name stuck. When the ultrasound later told us we were going to have a baby girl, Wayfare ran out and bought a half dozen copies of Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman. Wrapping one up and placing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}