{"id":38711,"date":"2023-05-09T12:14:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38711"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:14:50","slug":"when-you-need-a-giggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/05\/09\/when-you-need-a-giggle\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Need A Giggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t doubt this is a serious endeavour, but the visuals make me smile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Premature b]abies are laid on their front on the skateboard and strapped on so they can\u2019t fall off. The slight elevation allows them to use their arms and legs to propel themselves forward. Very premature babies are unable to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/breastfeeding\/\">breastfeed<\/a>, but the motions they use on the skateboard are similar to those of non-premature newborns who push themselves forwards if breastfeeding.<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2369100-skateboard-helps-very-premature-babies-develop-their-motor-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skateboard helps very premature babies develop their motor skills<\/a>,&#8221; Alice Klein, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (29 April 2023, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t doubt this is a serious endeavour, but the visuals make me smile: [Premature b]abies are laid on their front on the skateboard and strapped on so they can\u2019t fall off. The slight elevation allows them to use their arms and legs to propel themselves forward. Very premature babies \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/05\/09\/when-you-need-a-giggle\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38712,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38711\/revisions\/38712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}