{"id":759,"date":"2006-02-21T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2006-02-21T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T22:35:00","slug":"its-a-bouncing-baby-bowling-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/its-a-bouncing-baby-bowling-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a bouncing baby bowling ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for yet another installment in the series <i>Irrational Fears Proven Not So Irrational Thanks to a Story Linked on Fark<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2006\/02\/21\/D8FTOM683.html\" target=\"_blank\">This one<\/a> comes to us courtesy of Spain! <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A Colombian woman has given birth to a 15-pound baby, the largest in 40 years in Madrid&#8217;s main maternity hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old mother, identified only as Rosario, had gestational diabetes _ which can cause women to give birth to larger-than-usual babies _ and a track record. Her first daughter, now nine, weighed five kilos (10.2 pounds) at birth.<\/p>\n<p>The new baby&#8217;s father, Juan Carlos, said that with another woman he had a daughter that weighed 17 pounds at birth. &#8220;They told me it is genetic,&#8221; he told reporters. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the double entendre here: That the only thing that could produce such big fat babies was a big fat &#8230; you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s tough enough to imagine something weighing rougly 7 pounds in my gut, wanting to break free. But 15 pounds? Try and convince the poor mother that God&#8217;s not some sort of gnostic prankster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for yet another installment in the series Irrational Fears Proven Not So Irrational Thanks to a Story Linked on Fark. This one comes to us courtesy of Spain! A Colombian woman has given birth to a 15-pound baby, the largest in 40 years in Madrid&#8217;s main maternity hospital. The 38-year-old mother, identified only as Rosario, had gestational diabetes _ which can cause women to give birth to larger-than-usual babies _ and a track&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}