{"id":365,"date":"2004-05-21T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveenbachwani.wordpress.com\/2004\/05\/21\/the-invisible-club\/"},"modified":"2004-05-21T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T23:26:00","slug":"the-invisible-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2004\/05\/the-invisible-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things in life that need to be experienced; there is just no substitute for them.  Parenthood is one such thing.  <\/p>\n<p>There was a time when hiccups in my child would make me nervous.  Now I know better.  In fact, the last 3 months (yes, that&#8217;s all its been) have offered more learnings in parenthood than the rest of my life !  As a result, every thing is now just a wee bit different&#8230; in ways I&#8217;d never even imagined&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I now understand the sentiment that parents go through when their child gets kidnapped for ransom (earlier they were just ransom movies)&#8230;  I now feel more sympathy for child beggars on the streets&#8230;  I am now able to get a better understanding of how a human being would put his life secondary to that of another human being&#8217;s &#8211; a parent would do any thing for his child&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>I am better able to relate to children now.  And they, in turn, seem to like me a little more these days !  And, even as I try and prepare myself for the &#8220;month 4&#8221; and &#8220;month 5&#8221; phases of my little one, I find other people &#8211; new parents &#8211; looking to <i>me<\/i> for advice. <\/p>\n<p>It seems I am now a part of an invisible club &#8211; &#8220;The Parents&#8217; Club&#8221;.  And it&#8217;s unbelievable !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things in life that need to be experienced; there is just no substitute for them.  Parenthood is one such thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenthood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}