{"id":96,"date":"2009-06-07T14:48:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T21:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-06-07T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T21:48:24","slug":"silly-little-things-that-trip-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"silly little things that trip me up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was looking through a new craft book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/index\/main,book-info\/store,books\/products_id,7630\/title,Handmade-Hellos\/\">Handmade Hellos<\/a>* the other morning and came across an idea for a really super cute (and appropriate) baby announcement card.\u00a0 It was designed to look like a book and on the inside is a library due date card in a book pocket.\u00a0 The baby&#8217;s stats were listed on the due date card as &#8220;Title: [baby&#8217;s name], Authors [parents&#8217; names]&#8221; and that&#8217;s what got me.\u00a0 Can I call myself the &#8220;author&#8221; of my future child?\u00a0 Or would we be more like the editors?\u00a0 Or the publishers?\u00a0 It feels like it would be plagiarism to call ourselves the authors of our adoptive baby.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about that, but I think I&#8217;ll be skipping this announcement design in any case.\u00a0 There are lots of other super cute options out there.\u00a0 Just one more tiny example of the differences between adoptive and biological families.\u00a0 Or maybe not.\u00a0 Maybe biological families would feel weird calling themselves the &#8220;author&#8221; of their child too?\u00a0 How about calling yourselves the bindery?\u00a0 The illustrators?<\/p>\n<p>*If you click on the link above and then look at image 6 of 6, you can actually see the page I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was looking through a new craft book called Handmade Hellos* the other morning and came across an idea for a really super cute (and appropriate) baby announcement card.\u00a0 It was designed to look like a book and on the inside is a library due date card in a book pocket.\u00a0 The baby&#8217;s stats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}