{"id":1674,"date":"2018-08-28T22:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2018-08-30T23:57:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T22:57:27","slug":"me-my-babba-at-evesham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=1674","title":{"rendered":"Me &#038; My Babba At Evesham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-and-katie-evesham-2018a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-and-katie-evesham-2018a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1010\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-and-katie-evesham-2018a.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-and-katie-evesham-2018a-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-and-katie-evesham-2018a-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-and-katie-evesham-2018a-800x550.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-and-katie-evesham-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-and-katie-evesham-2017-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-and-katie-evesham-2017-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-and-katie-evesham-2017.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>I could not have been happier holding my little Katie while I posed with a hard-earned bag of fish, caught during this year&#8217;s Evesham Angling Festival!<\/p>\n<p>I deliberately took a similar catch shot the previous year, when Katie was just two months old. That was when I was in my faded old Drennan gear and just before my fresh Under Armour clobber arrived! I guess most people never realised at that point I&#8217;d already left the company to start a life-changing, year-long period of parental leave. Much to my relief, I&#8217;ve only been back there once in the past 18 months, and that was for less than 30 minutes! Let&#8217;s just say, despite so many people warning me, I mistakenly thought I was entering Willy Wonka&#8217;s chocolate factory, only to discover it was more akin to the Wizard of Oz, complete with witches and winged monkeys, ha ha!<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m Dorothy in that analogy then I&#8217;m glad I plucked up the courage to tap my shoes together. Our miracle baby was our greatest wish and the lifeline I had prayed for.\u00a0I now have a fantastic home, a truly amazing and supportive wife and a beautiful baby to show for it all. It&#8217;s been a fairy tale journey and, yes, the future looks very bright indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could not have been happier holding my little Katie while I posed with a hard-earned bag of fish, caught during this year&#8217;s Evesham Angling Festival! I deliberately took a similar catch shot the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}