{"id":242,"date":"2008-07-11T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2008-07-11T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T01:55:10","slug":"opa-and-maia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/11\/opa-and-maia\/","title":{"rendered":"Opa and Maia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly but surely I am making progress with my granddaughter Maia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Maia was born on <a class=\"blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=137\" target=\"_blank\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day last year<\/a>, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:12px;padding-top:7px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/BILDER\/opa-maia02.jpg\" title=\"Opa and Maia\" alt=\"Opa and Maia\" height=\"219\" width=\"275\" \/> which is interesting since her Opa is half Irish himself. During her visit to Mobile this month, she seemed to take a real liking to her Opa. That&#8217;s fine with her Opa. She didn&#8217;t mind being held by her Opa right after he had gotten up and before he had showered and shaved. Now that&#8217;s quite remarkable for a young lady! Maia has difficulty speaking words if the first letter is a vowel, so &quot;Opa&quot; is &quot;Bopa&quot; for the time being.  At times she walks through the house repeating Opa&#8217;s new name several times, apparently looking for me. Maia has made friends with our dog Sue, who can be somewhat sensitive to new visitors. However, Sue&#8217;s positive attraction to Maia is easily explained. When Maia walks around with a cookie or something else in her hand, she holds it right about the height of Sue&#8217;s head, so Sue is getting lots of extra treats during this visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly but surely I am making progress with my granddaughter Maia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}