{"id":2268,"date":"2013-05-14T21:12:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2013-05-14T21:27:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:27:17","slug":"what-boys-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2268","title":{"rendered":"What?  Boys, yeah."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just looked outside to see Eli contemplating a skateboard, a bunch of mardi gras parade tokens, and a bottle of gorilla glue with a delighted, enthusiastic smile on his face.<\/p>\n<p>I would have snapped a photo, but some immediate intervening had to be done.  <\/p>\n<p>This boy snaps into action.  Sometimes the thinking comes later.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130514-161750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130514-161750.jpg\" alt=\"20130514-161750.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Actually, the thinking follows the doing almost without fail.<\/p>\n<p> He just asked me if I&#8217;d hold the nail while he hammered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130514-162257.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130514-162257.jpg\" alt=\"20130514-162257.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What an optimistic boy.<\/p>\n<p>I declined.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing about Eli.  He does this every day on the way home from school.  Sometimes he yells, &#8220;This the best day of my life!&#8221;  Today he decided to spit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130514-162630.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130514-162630.jpg\" alt=\"20130514-162630.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep.  All boy.<\/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>I just looked outside to see Eli contemplating a skateboard, a bunch of mardi gras parade tokens, and a bottle of gorilla glue with a delighted, enthusiastic smile on his face. I would have snapped a photo, but some immediate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2268\">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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}