Tell me a story. Tell me the story about the three hippopotamuses.<\/i><\/p>\n
Ummm… OK.<\/p>\n
Once upon a time, there were three hipopotamuses. And they lived in Africa, in a river.<\/p>\n
Right, it was a great big long river, that had so much salt in it that they could float!<\/i><\/p>\n
Well, salt does help things float, but rivers are usually fresh water. Anyway, hippos are pretty fat, so they can float in fresh water.<\/p>\n
OK<\/i><\/p>\n
And one day… What happened then?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
One day, a nice giraffe came to the river and said “Please can I drink a little bit of your water.”<\/i><\/p>\n
And the hippos said “OK.” Then the giraffe drank a little bit of water, and said “Thank you, that was yummy.” Then she went away.<\/p>\n
And the next day, there was a rock.<\/i><\/p>\n
A… rock?<\/p>\n
Yeah, because the sea pushed it up into the jungle, and then there was a great big rock in the middle of the jungle in the river. And there was something under the rock!<\/i><\/p>\n
There was? What was under the rock?<\/p>\n
The mommy hippopotamus! She was down under the rock, and the baby hipopotamuses went to see her there.<\/i><\/p>\n
OK…<\/p>\n
Yeah, and then the daddy hippo came and moved the medium-sized rock and then they all went out from under the rock, and then they were in the sea!<\/i><\/p>\n
And… They said “Yay, we’re swimming in the sea!” and they splashed in the waves and stuff. And then an underwater camera floated by and took a picture of them<\/a>.<\/p>\n Right, and they all smiled, because they were happy to get their picture taken.<\/i><\/p>\n Sure.<\/p>\n The End!<\/i><\/p>\n Yep, I guess that’s the end, all right.<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n If you can find a moral in this, well, you’re doing better than I am. It made SteelyKid happy, though, and that’s what matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tell me a story. Tell me the story about the three hippopotamuses. Ummm… OK. Once upon a time, there were three hipopotamuses. And they lived in Africa, in a river. Right, it was a great big long river, that had so much salt in it that they could float! Well, salt does help things float,… Continue reading The Story of the Three Hippopotamuses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7082","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\/7082","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}