{"id":3642,"date":"2009-05-01T08:28:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T08:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/01\/old-and-lame-but-funny\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T08:28:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T08:28:01","slug":"old-and-lame-but-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/01\/old-and-lame-but-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Old and Lame, but Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m walking a little gingerly today, thanks to an injury to my left foot. Sadly, this was not the result of anything cool, like rescuing orphans from a burning building, or dunking a basketball in order to win a league championship. Instead, I bruised the bottom of my foot by landing on one of Emmy&#8217;s bones while frog-hopping across the room to entertain SteelyKid.<\/p>\n<p>This is in a fine family tradition&#8211; my father once blew out a knee trying to do the cossack dance for me&#8211; but it&#8217;s worth it. In the last week or two, she&#8217;s started laughing just about every time she sees me&#8211; evidently, I am the funniest person in the universe. And you know, I&#8217;m good with that, because as one of my colleagues pointed out, ten or twelve years from now, I&#8217;m going to be the most embarrassing person in the universe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no video of the frog-hopping (thankfully), but below the fold is a clip of another endlessly entertaining game.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BWSnT7Jvg94&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BWSnT7Jvg94&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This is me bouncing her up and down on my knee, like a pony ride. She loves this, and can do it for&#8230; maybe not hours, but tens of minutes, which is hours in Baby Time. When I stop, she&#8217;ll flail her arms and legs like Yosemite Sam yelling &#8220;Yah, mule!&#8221; until I start bouncing her again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m walking a little gingerly today, thanks to an injury to my left foot. Sadly, this was not the result of anything cool, like rescuing orphans from a burning building, or dunking a basketball in order to win a league championship. Instead, I bruised the bottom of my foot by landing on one of Emmy&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/01\/old-and-lame-but-funny\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old and Lame, but Funny<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}