{"id":767,"date":"2005-07-25T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/25\/the-pudd\/"},"modified":"2005-07-25T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T16:05:00","slug":"the-pudd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/25\/the-pudd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pudd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Will was a tiny baby, I found myself calling him “Pudd”. Growing up in the South (as I did) you learn that everyone is either “Pudd” or “Shoug” (as in, think “pudding” and “sugar”, cut off the ends of the words, and you’ve got the correct pronouncation). Never in a million years would I have thought that one of those words would have left my lips in reference to my own child. But, it did. I called him “the pudd” “little puddin'” and just “pudd”. After a few months I picked up other nicknames (little man, crazy-go-nuts, wild man, monkey) and “pudd” fell to the way-side.
It’s moments like these that make me think I never should have dropped “pudd”. \"Posted<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Will was a tiny baby, I found myself calling him “Pudd”. Growing up in the South (as I did) you learn that everyone is either “Pudd” or “Shoug” (as in, think “pudding” and “sugar”, cut off the ends of the words, and you’ve got the correct pronouncation). Never in a million years would I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}