{"id":850,"date":"2009-03-25T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-16T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:17:28","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s Always Loved Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>He&#8217;s Always Loved Skin<\/b><br \/>\nWell, once again I&#8217;m talking about my youngest son and his love for skin.  If you missed the other time, look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.html?cm_id=803\">here<\/a>.  They recently finished a unit on skin in his preschool class.  He just ate it up.  We even took in a recording of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lithgow\">John Lithgow<\/a> song <i>All You Really Need Is Skin<\/i> for his class to listen to.  So, what he did really shouldn&#8217;t have surprised me.  But it was still as cute as all get out.<\/p>\n<p>What happened?  Well, we were in church and made room on our pew for a teenaged girl to sit with our family.  She is African American.  During the offertory, he leaned over to her and, patting her hand, said, &#8220;Look at all of dat lovely melanin!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>She smiled.<\/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>He&#8217;s Always Loved Skin Well, once again I&#8217;m talking about my youngest son and his love for skin. If you missed the other time, look here. They recently finished a unit on skin in his preschool class. He just ate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=850\">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\/850"}],"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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}