{"id":1213,"date":"2011-08-23T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2011-08-23T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:33:45","slug":"this-girls-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/this-girls-motor\/","title":{"rendered":"This Girl’s Motor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Josie\u2019s always been a strong girl. At her 2 week check up, the doctor did a test of her neck strength. She was on her back and he wrapped her little fingers around his index fingers and pulled her into a sitting position. Most newborn\u2019s heads fall to the side but Josie held hers perfectly straight. He said it was \u201cremarkable\u201d and that he\u2019d never seen anything like that before.<\/p>\n

Gradually she grew into a chubby baby while retaining that strength. At 18 months she was FAST with no concept of danger or sense of self-preservation. Even as she moved toward three she still had a layer of chub that created a misleading fa\u00e7ade, a pink princess wrapper on a V6 engine.<\/p>\n

Just in the last few months, Josie has lost most of her baby chub. Gone are the delicious dimpled thighs and, the part I notice most, the creases at her wrists. Gone. There are bones there now. It is SO strange.<\/p>\n

Without the wrapper, the engine is on display.<\/p>\n

Clearly, I need to find this girl some more athletics. Is training a four year old for an ironman excessive?<\/p>\n

Only 50 more days until Who in This Room: The Realities of Cancer, Fish and Demolition<\/a> comes out. Get your copy today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Josie\u2019s always been a strong girl. At her 2 week check up, the doctor did a test of her neck strength. She was on her back and he wrapped her little fingers around his index fingers and pulled her into a sitting position. Most newborn\u2019s heads fall to the side but Josie held hers perfectly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mom","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}