{"id":419,"date":"2008-08-09T20:23:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T14:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveenbachwani.wordpress.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2008-08-09T20:23:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T14:53:42","slug":"tidbits-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2008\/08\/tidbits-august-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits: August 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Miracle in August<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pumpkin: Papa, do you know how many elves Santa has?<br \/>\nMe: No, tell me.<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: Not just five&#8230; He has <i>20&#8230; 50&#8230;<\/i> !!!<br \/>\nMe: Oh!<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: And, do you know how many &#8220;kids&#8221; there are in this world?<br \/>\nMe: No, tell me.<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: A &#8220;<i>hundred<\/i>&#8221; !!!<br \/>\nPumpkin: <i>That&#8217;s<\/i> why Santa has so many elves&#8230; to help him deliver all the gifts!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, now you know how it all works&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I asked Pumpkin to help me with something at the dining table.\u00a0 She said she was feeling a bit tired, and didn&#8217;t do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About half an hour later, when we were retiring for the day, I mentioned to her that I felt a little sad about the fact that she didn&#8217;t do the task I&#8217;d asked her to, at the dining table, a little while earlier.<\/p>\n<p>She heard me out, and almost instantly, gave me a tight hug, and asked: &#8220;Are you feeling better now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How fast they grow up!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><i>Pumpkin is all of four years and six months, at this time.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miracle in August Pumpkin: Papa, do you know how many elves Santa has? Me: No, tell me. Pumpkin: Not just five&#8230; He has 20&#8230; 50&#8230;<\/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-419","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\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}