{"id":5869,"date":"2011-09-17T08:18:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T08:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/09\/17\/cute-toddler-story\/"},"modified":"2011-09-17T08:18:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T08:18:01","slug":"cute-toddler-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/09\/17\/cute-toddler-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute Toddler Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who follow me on Twitter\/ Facebook have been getting the occasional snippet of cute dialogue from SteelyKid over there. This one&#8217;s a little too long for breaking into 140-character blocks, so while I wait for her to come downstairs so we can make pancakes, a cute SteelyKid story:<\/p>\n<p>We play a surprising number of games whose goal is to convince her that I&#8217;m an imbecile, one of which is me &#8220;misremembering&#8221; the lyrics of songs like &#8220;The Wheels on the Bus.&#8221; One day last week, we had the following exchange (more or less) in the car:<\/p>\n<p>Me: So, the wheels on the bus go up and down, right?<\/p>\n<p>SteelyKid: No, they go round and round.<\/p>\n<p>Me: Oh. So it&#8217;s the babies on the bus go up and down?<\/p>\n<p>SteelyKid: No, the babies go waa waa waa.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Me: I thought the babies went swish swish swish?<\/p>\n<p>SteelyKid: No, that&#8217;s the wipers.<\/p>\n<p>Me: I thought it was the driver?<\/p>\n<p>SteelyKid: No.<\/p>\n<p>Me: So, what&#8217;s the driver do?<\/p>\n<p>SteelyKid (exasperated): Daddy, he drives the bus!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think she quite understands why Kate and I found that so hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, here&#8217;s some video of a laughing SteelyKid:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xo2sLqqGEl0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That laugh probably shows why I&#8217;m willing to pretend to be a complete idiot for her amusement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who follow me on Twitter\/ Facebook have been getting the occasional snippet of cute dialogue from SteelyKid over there. This one&#8217;s a little too long for breaking into 140-character blocks, so while I wait for her to come downstairs so we can make pancakes, a cute SteelyKid story: We play a surprising&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/09\/17\/cute-toddler-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cute Toddler Story<\/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":[2,3,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-steelykid","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","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=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}