{"id":565,"date":"2007-06-10T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-16T11:17:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:17:27","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Quote of the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Favorite Quote of the Weekend<\/b><br \/>\nWe are back in Missouri.  And, we had a great weekend in Alabama seeing family and friends.  All of the boys were in fine form, as they say, this weekend, and so choosing a favorite quote was hard.  This one won.<\/p>\n<p>Today while we were eating lunch (catfish, fries, hush puppies, slaw, etc. &#8212; yum!), my Dad said to my youngest son, &#8220;You really ought to eat that hush puppy.&#8221;  At this point, my oldest son looked up at us.  He realized that we were talking about the food *that we were eating* and appeared to be slightly alarmed but he seemed to be trying to almost reassure himself when he asked us, &#8220;Those aren&#8217;t really dogs, are they?&#8221;  My Dad told him, &#8220;No.  Hush puppies aren&#8217;t dogs.&#8221;  I was trying not to laugh.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many children have asked that over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Bless him.<\/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>Favorite Quote of the Weekend We are back in Missouri. And, we had a great weekend in Alabama seeing family and friends. All of the boys were in fine form, as they say, this weekend, and so choosing a favorite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=565\">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\/565"}],"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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}