{"id":317,"date":"2006-12-28T00:23:21","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-12-28\/317"},"modified":"2006-12-28T00:23:21","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T15:23:21","slug":"the-pure-joy-of-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-12-28\/317","title":{"rendered":"The Pure Joy of a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>The pure, wide-eyed, innocent joy of an excited child. <span class='nobr'>It's something<\/span> all children have, and all adults wish they still had.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the case of this adult, it's also something <span class='nobr'>I wish<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I could<\/span>\ncapture.... with my camera. These were the best <span class='nobr'>I could<\/span> do on Christmas\nmorning...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='024359' href=\"\/i\/JEF_024359.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_024359_sm.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\"\nid=\"i024359\"\/><\/a><br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 20mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>80 sec, f\/4, ISO 800 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_024359.jpg\">full exif<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='024366' href=\"\/i\/JEF_024366.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_024366_sm.jpg\" width=\"411\" height=\"500\"\nid=\"i024366\"\/><\/a><br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 24mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>90 sec, f\/5, ISO 800 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_024366.jpg\">full exif<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n\n<p>\n\nSometimes, the excitement is just <span class='nobr'>a little<\/span> too much for him. Opening one\npresent (<span class='nobr'>a bubble<\/span>-maker from Grandma and Grandpa, thanks!), he exclaimed\n&#8220;<b>Yeah! This is just what <span class='nobr'>I need!<\/span><\/b>&#8221; This alone is funny enough, coming\nfrom <span class='nobr'>a four<\/span>-year-old, but it was soon followed by &#8220;<b>What's this?<\/b>&#8221;\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nI have it on video... <span class='nobr'>I should<\/span> upload it, but I'm <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> crunched for time.\nWe're heading off for <span class='nobr'>a three<\/span>-day mini-trip tomorrow, until the 31st.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pure, wide-eyed, innocent joy of an excited child. It's something all children have, and all adults wish they still had.<\/p> <p>In the case of this adult, it's also something I wish I could capture.... with my camera. These were the best I could do on Christmas morning...<\/p> <p> Sometimes, the excitement is just a little too much for him. Opening one present (a bubble-maker from Grandma and Grandpa, thanks!), he exclaimed \"<b>Yeah! This is just what I need!<\/b>\" This alone is funny enough, coming from a four-year-old, but it was soon followed by \"<b>What's this?<\/b>\" <\/p><p> I have it [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}