{"id":3838,"date":"2009-09-24T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-23T04:25:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:25:28","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3838","title":{"rendered":"What Accent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>What Accent?<\/b><br \/>\nI began this school year driving carpool in the mornings.  It was no big thing, I didn&#8217;t mind doing it.  Along with my four boys (only 2 of whom were being delivered to school) I was also driving a little brother\/sister pair that we know from church.  I think that they are in 3rd and 1st grade, respectively.  But, after a few weeks, Jon said that he&#8217;d like to drive carpool in the morning and so I let him.  <\/p>\n<p>Really, who would turn down the fun of being able to continue to wear pjs and drink an extra cup of coffee?  Not me.<\/p>\n<p>One day a week or so ago, my #2 son said that, as he was riding home with the brother and sister, their mom said that they had been missing me driving them to school in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>What?  I don&#8217;t remember being particularly entertaining or anything like that.  So I was wondering to myself what they were missing, exactly, except possibly that I let them listen to <i>Kung Fu Fighting<\/i> everyday on the way there.<\/p>\n<p>It all became clear when #2 questioned them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>#2:  So you miss my mom?<\/p>\n<p>Little boy:  uh-huh.<\/p>\n<p>Little girl (enthusiastically, 2 octaves up):  Oh, yeah.  <b>She talks like a COW-boy!!!!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What a hoot!  I love it.  Cowboy&#8230;Southerner&#8230;..you know.<\/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>What Accent? I began this school year driving carpool in the mornings. It was no big thing, I didn&#8217;t mind doing it. Along with my four boys (only 2 of whom were being delivered to school) I was also driving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3838\">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\/3838"}],"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=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}