{"id":137,"date":"2002-05-31T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2002-06-01T03:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2002\/05\/31\/the-stick\/"},"modified":"2002-05-31T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2002-06-01T03:25:28","slug":"the-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/the-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"The stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon Tru was playing in the backyard and he found a little stick left over from the deck-building project.  He was having a good time with it, pointing at things, scraping the grass and waving it around.  Needless to say, he also wanted to put it in his mouth.  I started moving his hand away and saying &#8220;not for your mouth&#8221;.  Of course he kept trying, but I kept moving his hand and saying the words.  Pretty soon he stopped trying to put it in his mouth as much and if he tried, I didn&#8217;t have to move his hand.  I could just say the words and he&#8217;d stop.  Cool.  My kid listens to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon Tru was playing in the backyard and he found a little stick left over from the deck-building project. He was having a good time with it, pointing at things, scraping the grass and waving it around. Needless to say, he also wanted to put it in his mouth. I started moving his hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tru","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-2d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}