{"id":624,"date":"2003-07-13T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2003-07-13T09:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/624"},"modified":"2003-07-13T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2003-07-13T09:01:42","slug":"kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/624","title":{"rendered":"Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Jo and I went grocery shopping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mommy, which area is this?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;This is the health food area.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh.  So where&#8217;s the Oreo area?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a precocious little twerp.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a Crenshaw melon, never having tried one before.  It&#8217;s insanely tender and juicy.  The knife slid through it like butter.  Rivulets of sweet juice poured out while I cut it and dribbled off the counter onto the floor.  Jo scolded me for letting all the juice out.  I chopped half of the melon into bite-sized pieces and the kids followed me out of the kitchen like I was the Pied Piper.  They each took two bites and split, and are now playing and refuse to come back to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you without children may wish to skip this next part, but I find it important to point out that Jo, who is three-and-a-half, pooped on the potty voluntarily for the very first time ever yesterday.  Perhaps she will be potty trained before kindergarten, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Still trying out Kung Log.  I like the spell checker.  I like being able to save drafts without connecting to the internet.  That would come in handy when I&#8217;m away from home and without an always-on connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Jo and I went grocery shopping. &#8220;Mommy, which area is this?&#8221; &#8220;This is the health food area.&#8221; &#8220;Oh. So where&#8217;s the Oreo area?&#8221; What a precocious little twerp. I bought a Crenshaw melon, never having tried one before. It&#8217;s insanely tender and juicy. The knife slid through it like butter. Rivulets of sweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}