{"id":3701,"date":"2008-09-16T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-23T04:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:25:27","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3701","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts of a Four Year Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thoughts of a Four Year Old<\/b><br \/>\nEarlier today, my youngest came up to me and asked me,&#8221;Mom, are you a damsel?&#8221;  I wonder why he wanted to know?  Perhaps he thought I was in distress?<\/p>\n<p>Later, we were leaving and he noticed some workmen were down in the manhole by our house.  He turned excitedly to me and earnestly said, &#8220;Ooooo, I hope that they can pull a crocodile out of there!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that everything is possible in his world.  Though, I know that it is more likely for a crocodile to be in the manhole than it is for me to be a damsel.  My damsel days are over, unfortunately, my days of distress are not.  <\/p>\n<p>Such is life.<\/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>Thoughts of a Four Year Old Earlier today, my youngest came up to me and asked me,&#8221;Mom, are you a damsel?&#8221; I wonder why he wanted to know? Perhaps he thought I was in distress? Later, we were leaving and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3701\">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\/3701"}],"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=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}