{"id":134,"date":"2007-10-16T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2007-10-16T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T00:52:00","slug":"a-sure-sign-that-i-need-to-monitor-their-tv-habits-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"A sure sign that I need to monitor their TV habits better&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making my diurnal rounds, ensuring the brushing of teeth, the changing of clothes, and the getting to beds, when the voice of Number 2 daughter echoes faintly from the mountain of pink fluff she uses as a bed.  Not unexpectedly, she would like a story.  Having neither the energy nor the voice for a full story at the moment, I offer her a recitation of Jabberwocky.  (This is by far the most useful and versatile piece of literature you will ever memorize &#8211; if you can&#8217;t recite it right now, finishing reading this, then find a copy.  Oh, fine, <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.jabberwocky.com\/carroll\/jabber\/jabberwocky.html\">click here<\/a>.  Lazybones.)  <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, she is very well pleased by this, and then we spend a nice moment making faces at each other.  (OK, I was helping teach her how to raise just one eyebrow.  Also useful, but you&#8217;ll have to look up the link yourself.)  The moment passes, and I lean in to kiss her goodnight, on her forehead.  She jumps back into her mound of pink, giggling like mad, and yells, and I quote, &#8220;Uh-uh, no more kisses for you, big boy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This, from the 5-yr-old.  I nearly hurt myself laughing.  What the hell do they teach them at school these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making my diurnal rounds, ensuring the brushing of teeth, the changing of clothes, and the getting to beds, when the voice of Number 2 daughter echoes faintly from the mountain of pink fluff she uses as a bed. Not unexpectedly, she would like a story. Having neither the energy nor the voice for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}