{"id":49,"date":"2010-01-17T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2010-08-10T23:01:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T03:01:18","slug":"the-advantages-of-obliviousness-and-selective-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"the advantages of obliviousness and selective hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, washing the dishes, when the Human Tape Recorder walks up to me; all of 4 years old at the time. &#8220;Daddy,&#8221; she says, &#8220;I need Cheerios.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK, we can do this. I dried my hands and gave her a fistfull of Cheerios. She thanked me and runs back to the bathroom, where she had been in the first place. I turned back to the sink and the dishes, contemplating the joys of Selective Hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Because what she REALLY said was, &#8220;Daddy, I need *more* Cheerios for my duck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t hear all of that, because deep down I knew that I didn&#8217;t want to know anything about what had happened to the *first* set of Cheerios.<\/p>\n<p>And I didn&#8217;t want to know anything AT ALL about a duck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, washing the dishes, when the Human Tape Recorder walks up to me; all of 4 years old at the time. &#8220;Daddy,&#8221; she says, &#8220;I need Cheerios.&#8221; OK, we can do this. I dried my hands and gave her a fistfull of Cheerios. She thanked me and runs back to the bathroom, [&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":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}