{"id":240,"date":"2006-05-12T21:04:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T10:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/05\/12\/the-nesting-instinct-in-the-21st-century\/"},"modified":"2007-03-11T17:50:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T06:50:13","slug":"the-nesting-instinct-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/05\/12\/the-nesting-instinct-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nesting Instinct in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pregnant friend:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve got my au-pair cleaning out my plastics cupboard. Must be my nesting instinct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julian:<\/strong> I don&#8217;t know about that. Getting someone else to nest for you doesn&#8217;t sound right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PF:<\/strong> Yeah! It&#8217;s a modern version of the nesting instinct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J:<\/strong> Hmmm. Have you cleaned up any icons from your Windows desktop recently?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PF:<\/strong> Yes, I have actually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J:<\/strong> Well, there you go. <em>That&#8217;s<\/em> the modern version of the nesting instinct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short excerpt from a conversation with a pregnant friend.<\/p>\n<p>(Hey, other bloggers can put conversation excerpts in their blogs, so why can&#8217;t I?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}