{"id":471,"date":"2015-08-16T16:58:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T20:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spearpeople.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2015-08-16T16:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T20:58:38","slug":"exploring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spearpeople.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Exploring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-504-1\">\n\n    \t<div class=\"slideshowlink\">\n        <a href='https:\/\/www.spearpeople.com\/index.php\/nggallery\/slideshow?p=471'>[Show slideshow]<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spearpeople.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/exploring\/gardening.JPG\"\n               title=\"\"\n               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Sylvan is not only crawling everywhere but working on standing up and &#8220;cruising&#8221; (the technical term for walking along the edge of the furniture). 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