{"id":4804,"date":"2007-08-25T21:36:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T21:36:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4804","title":{"rendered":"His Acorn Is Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>His Acorn Is Working<\/b><br \/>\nFor those of you who don&#8217;t have a clue about the title of this post, I&#8217;ll explain briefly.  I tried to potty train my youngest a few months ago.  I failed.  And we decided to try later.  But, during the first try at training, my son said to me, &#8220;Can&#8217;t do it.  My acorn isn&#8217;t working.&#8221;  I&#8217;ll leave you to guess what his acorn is.  <\/p>\n<p>So, today, I decided to try again.  Jon and the other boys had plans to be in and out, and we didn&#8217;t even have electricity to distract us, since it went off in yesterday&#8217;s storm. He did a pretty good job and ended up eating lots of chocolate (as treats) before the day was up.  He is a funny little boy.  After what was like, his third accident of the morning, I called out to him, &#8220;Are your underwear still dry?&#8221;  He replied, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;  I asked, &#8220;What are you doing over there?&#8221;  His answer, &#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m playing in this puddle.&#8221;  Lovely.<\/p>\n<p>The good thing is that, when I&#8217;m done buying diapers for him, I&#8217;m done buying diapers.<\/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>His Acorn Is Working For those of you who don&#8217;t have a clue about the title of this post, I&#8217;ll explain briefly. I tried to potty train my youngest a few months ago. I failed. And we decided to try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4804\">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\/4804"}],"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=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}