{"id":1240,"date":"2013-01-20T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T19:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2016-12-10T04:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T09:57:58","slug":"lily-rebecca-aaronson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Lily Rebecca Aaronson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?attachment_id=1241\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1241\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1241\" src=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/lily1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lily1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/lily1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/lily1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/lily1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/lily1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/lily1.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 7+ years of blogging, one lesson I&#8217;ve learned is to go easy on the highly-personal stuff. \u00a0But sometimes one does need to make an exception. \u00a0Lily Rebecca Aaronson was born today (Jan. 20), at 6:55am, to me and <a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/dmoshkov\/\">Dana<\/a>, weighing 3.3kg. \u00a0(After seeing her placenta, the blog category &#8220;Adventures in Meatspace&#8221; never seemed more appropriate.) \u00a0I&#8217;m blogging from the postpartum ward, which has free wifi and excellent food&#8212;we&#8217;ll probably stay here as long as they&#8217;ll let us.<\/p>\n<p>Given that her parents are both complexity theorists, one question people will have is whether Lily demonstrates any early aptitude in that field. \u00a0All I can say is that, so far, she&#8217;s never once confused quantum computing with classical exponential parallelism, treated relativization as acting on a complexity class rather than on its definition, or made any other mathematical mistake that I can see. \u00a0(She has, on the other hand, repeatedly mistaken her hand for food.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 7+ years of blogging, one lesson I&#8217;ve learned is to go easy on the highly-personal stuff. \u00a0But sometimes one does need to make an exception. \u00a0Lily Rebecca Aaronson was born today (Jan. 20), at 6:55am, to me and Dana, weighing 3.3kg. \u00a0(After seeing her placenta, the blog category &#8220;Adventures in Meatspace&#8221; never seemed more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-meatspace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}