{"id":412,"date":"2008-04-15T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveenbachwani.wordpress.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-04-15T18:00:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T12:30:19","slug":"tidbits-april-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2008\/04\/tidbits-april-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits: April 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Practice what you Preach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been suffering from an acute case of tonsilitis, the past week.\u00a0 Pumpkin\u00a0had gotten used to my frequently asking for warm liquids at home, where I otherwise prefer drinking cold things.\u00a0 Anyway, the half-a-dozen pills I was on, were obviously working, as my symptoms started gradually improving and the pain in my throat subsided.\u00a0\u00a0Naturally, I was keen on\u00a0having something cool&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, I asked her to tell her mama to make me a glass of cold coffee.\u00a0 She started to go to tell her, and then suddenly turned around and scolded me: &#8220;Papa, you&#8217;re not allowed to have cold coffee.\u00a0 Only hot coffee.\u00a0 Understand?&#8221;\u00a0 I was a bit surprised, and asked her why.\u00a0 She said with sincere concern: &#8220;You have a bad throat, no?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daughter of Invention!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My wife &#8211; BossLady &#8211; had just completed taking a photograph of Pumpkin and her playschool teacher, on her last day of school.\u00a0 On the way home, Pumpkin had this to say: &#8220;Mama, when I grow up, I&#8217;ll make a camera that has paper in it, so that when you take a photo, you can press a button and the paper will come out with the photo on it!&#8221;\u00a0 She was, of course, inventing the <i>polaroid camera<\/i> without knowing it exists!!!<\/p>\n<p><i>At the time of writing this, Pumpkin is all of 4 years and 2 months old!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practice what you Preach I&#8217;d been suffering from an acute case of tonsilitis, the past week.\u00a0 Pumpkin\u00a0had gotten used to my frequently asking for warm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wonder-years"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}