{"id":9396,"date":"2005-08-30T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/30\/the-sweetest-sound-ever\/"},"modified":"2005-08-30T23:38:12","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T20:38:12","slug":"the-sweetest-sound-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/30\/the-sweetest-sound-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The sweetest sound ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My absolutely most favorite sound in the whole wide world is the sound of Maxim laughing<\/a> (WAV, 60 KBytes, recorded with my mobile). Every time I hear this it feels like a Japanese cherry tree is blossoming inside me on a fast forward playback, like they show on Discovery channel.<\/p>\n

Gladly, Maxim is laughing more and more with every day. Today both Olga and I were surprised to catch Maxim laughing while watching TV. There weren’t anything funny though – just a bunch of people and camera that was switching fast between them. I guess it reminded Maxim of a hide-and-seek game that we play with him.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

My absolutely most favorite sound in the whole wide world is the sound of Maxim laughing (WAV, 60 KBytes, recorded with my mobile). Every time I hear this it feels like a Japanese cherry tree is blossoming inside me on a fast forward playback, like they show on Discovery channel. Gladly, Maxim is laughing more … Continue reading The sweetest sound ever<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2420,591],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-parenting","tag-sounds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9282,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/29\/maxim-can-sit\/","url_meta":{"origin":9396,"position":0},"title":"Maxim can sit","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 29, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Maxim can sit. 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