{"id":1297,"date":"2023-09-25T22:17:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2023-09-25T22:17:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:17:44","slug":"baby-pool-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2023\/baby-pool-v","title":{"rendered":"Baby Pool V"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve done this four times already; here&#8217;s the fifth. For the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2010\/37-down-time-for-the-baby-pool\">first<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2011\/the-second-baby-pool\">second<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2013\/baby-pool-iii\">third<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2015\/baby-pool-iv\">fourth<\/a>, please click on the links. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rules stay nearly the same: Leave a comment with your prediction of Little One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birth date, time, size, weight, and gender, and whoever gets closest on average to the truth wins a sweet prize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>If you get the gender right, you receive 0 points; if you get it wrong, or don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t state it, -5 points.<\/li><li>For every day you are off, -0.5 points (used to be -1 point). Not stating day or time scores -5 points.<\/li><li>For every centimeter you are off, -1 point. Not stating anything scores -5 points.<\/li><li>For every 200 grams you are off, -1 point. Not stating anything scores -5 points.<\/li><li>The person with the highest total wins.<\/li><li>Entering after Little One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrival voids the entry.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The following might influence your picks: <br>The due date is October 28th, 2023. I have no photographic evidence of Janet&#8217;s baby belly, but it&#8217;s big. I do have historical data: First baby 6 days early, 51cm, 3590g; second baby four days late, 53cm, 3840g; third baby eight days late, 53cm, 4300g; fourth baby six days late, 51cm, 3650g. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaldutch.com\/unitconverter\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitaldutch<\/a> for a useful unit conversion link, or have a look at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AmzPeWIdfPE_dHdwMDZsY2g5eFRlUTJpeEh2c2hIbUE&amp;authkey=CM-D-kg\" target=\"_blank\">Google spreadsheet I made for converting weights<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve done this four times already; here&#8217;s the fifth. For the first, second, third, and fourth, please click on the links. The rules stay nearly the same: Leave a comment with your prediction of Little One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birth date, time, size, weight, and gender, and whoever gets closest on average to the truth wins a sweet prize. If you get the gender right, you receive 0 points; if you get it wrong, or don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t state it, -5 points. For every day you are off, -0.5 points (used to be -1 point). Not stating day or time scores -5 points. For every centimeter you are off, -1 point. Not stating anything scores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}