{"id":275,"date":"2007-11-11T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/11\/11\/a-book-dedication-to-the-yet-to-be-born\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T04:14:08","slug":"a-book-dedication-to-the-yet-to-be-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/11\/a-book-dedication-to-the-yet-to-be-born\/","title":{"rendered":"A book dedication to Ms. Right and the yet-to-be-born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Shawn and I were IMing about our dedications in our books. I dedicated mine to my parents (&#8220;<em>For Mom and Dad, who left their homeland so their children could follow their passions, and for all other moms and dads who have done the same<\/em>.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>But his, the best I have ever seen, takes a jab at the pretentiousness of dedications and acknowledgments. It literally made me burst out laughing when it came across my screen:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  &#8220;To my future wife and kids, who,<br \/>\nwhen I meet and conceive them,<br \/>\nrespectively,<br \/>\nwill likely be my love and inspiration.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Shawn and I were IMing about our dedications in our books. I dedicated mine to my parents (&#8220;For Mom and Dad, who left their homeland so their children could follow their passions, and for all other moms and dads who have done the same.&#8221;) But his, the best I have ever seen, takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-4r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}