{"id":640,"date":"2013-06-11T21:18:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2013-06-11T21:18:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:18:50","slug":"baby-pool-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2013\/baby-pool-iii","title":{"rendered":"Baby Pool III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not quite as early in setting this up as <a title=\"Second baby pool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2011\/the-second-baby-pool\">last time<\/a>, but still well ahead of the <a title=\"First baby pool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2010\/37-down-time-for-the-baby-pool\">initial pool<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 We are of course hoping that Little One stays inside a good bit longer, as his due date is August 7, but Janet&#8217;s feeling b-i-g and everyone who sees her seems surprised that she still has nearly two months to go.\u00c2\u00a0 You can participate as before by commenting with your prediction of Little One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birth date, time, size, weight, and gender (unknown to us as well).\u00c2\u00a0 Whoever gets closest to the truth will be crowned the grand winner and will receive an as of yet undecided prize.\u00c2\u00a0 I think the past winners have since received something that starts with &#8220;ch&#8221; and rhymes with &#8220;shock lit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rules for determining the grand winner:<br \/>\n1. If you get the gender right, you receive 0 points; if you get it wrong, or don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t state it, -5 points.<br \/>\n2. For every day you are off, -1 point.\u00c2\u00a0 Not stating day or time scores -5 points.<br \/>\n3. For every centimeter you are off, -1 point.\u00c2\u00a0 Not stating anything scores -5 points.<br \/>\n4. For every 200 grams you are off, -1 point.\u00c2\u00a0 Not stating anything scores -5 points.<br \/>\n5. The person with the highest total wins.<br \/>\n6. Entering after Little One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrival voids the entry.<br \/>\nGo to <a title=\"Unit converter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaldutch.com\/unitconverter\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitaldutch<\/a> for a useful unit conversion link, or have a look at the <a title=\"Convert grams to pounds and ounces\" 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<p>And here&#8217;s Janet at week 30:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Janet at 30 weeks\" src=\"..\/images\/Janet20130602.jpg\" alt=\"Janet at 30 weeks\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not quite as early in setting this up as last time, but still well ahead of the initial pool.\u00c2\u00a0 We are of course hoping that Little One stays inside a good bit longer, as his due date is August 7, but Janet&#8217;s feeling b-i-g and everyone who sees her seems surprised that she still has nearly two months to go.\u00c2\u00a0 You can participate as before by commenting with your prediction of Little One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birth date, time, size, weight, and gender (unknown to us as well).\u00c2\u00a0 Whoever gets closest to the truth will be crowned the grand winner and will receive an as of yet undecided prize.\u00c2\u00a0 I think the [&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\/640"}],"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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}