{"id":4838,"date":"2007-11-15T14:03:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T14:03:29","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=4838","title":{"rendered":"Contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Contagious<\/b><br \/>\nSo, last night, Jon and I played a game of Scrabble with our two middle boys, N9 and C7.  C7 was on my team.  He is such a funny little boy.  Most of the time, he would either be rearranging letters before I had a chance to figure out what we were doing or giving me many, many smooches.  He is a very passionate little boy.  He is also a very detached little boy.  I could describe his interesting personality all day.  Anyway, during one of these bouts of kissing while Jon and N9 were taking their turn at Scrabble, I remarked to C7 that I hoped that he wasn&#8217;t contagious &#8212; since I was getting all of his sweet kisses.  &#8220;Contagious?&#8221;, he said.  He mulled it over for a minute before saying, &#8220;What does contag-you mean?&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that he would have asked me the meaning of contag-we, contag-me, and contag-them had we not all been consumed by laughter.<br \/>\nHe is far from ordinary, that is for sure.<\/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>Contagious So, last night, Jon and I played a game of Scrabble with our two middle boys, N9 and C7. C7 was on my team. He is such a funny little boy. Most of the time, he would either be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4838\">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\/4838"}],"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=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}