{"id":1025,"date":"2010-06-30T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-16T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:17:28","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Thing I Thought I&#8217;d Never Have To Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Yet Another Thing I Thought I&#8217;d Never Have To Say<\/b><br \/>\nto one of my children.  Of course, this thought that I&#8217;d never have to say something like this was long ago, when I was still naive and thought that my children would be rational and stuff like that&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Me:  E, you may NOT eat any more ants.  Do you hear me?<br \/>\nE:  But, Mom, I just love the way arthropods <i>taste<\/i>.<br \/>\nMe:  Please, stop licking the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, we were at the pool &#8212; where there were are other people to observe our unusual behavior.  Lovely.  <\/p>\n<p>Guess who follows the beat of his own drummer?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img35821277907955.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img35821277907955.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guess what?  He&#8217;s not the only one.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what, else? If the beats of all of the drummers that are followed by my interesting progeny were actually audible, well, I&#8217;d have quite a cacophony on my hands.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just saying.<\/p>\n<p>Happy last day of June, y&#8217;all.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet Another Thing I Thought I&#8217;d Never Have To Say to one of my children. Of course, this thought that I&#8217;d never have to say something like this was long ago, when I was still naive and thought that my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1025\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}