{"id":505,"date":"2009-01-04T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T05:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papabachwani.wordpress.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2009-01-04T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T05:50:15","slug":"tidbits-january-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2009\/01\/tidbits-january-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits: January 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Morning Glory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a Saturday morning, and Pumpkin had decided that she simply <i>must<\/i> wake up early and go with Papa for his morning walk!\u00a0 Of course, Papa did most of the walking, while Pumpkin ran around in the grass and played on the swing.\u00a0 Once those critical tasks were behind us, Papa suggested that the both of them sit on a bench, in silence, and listen to the sounds of the birds for a bit.\u00a0 This is what happened next&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pumpkin: Papa, do you know why birds have wings?!<br \/>\nPapa: No, tell me?<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: Sooooo, if the BAD man comes to hurt they birds, they can simply flap their wings and fly away!<\/p>\n<p>Papa: Pumpkin, tell me, but how do the birds learn how to fly?<br \/>\nPumpkin: That is a very difficult answer.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Thinks for a bit)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: I don&#8217;t have the answer to that.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Pumpkin changes the topic, not wanting to end on a negative note, I suppose)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Pumpkin: Do you know who has made your face, your body, your hands?<br \/>\nPapa: Who has made them?<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: God!<br \/>\nPapa: Oh!\u00a0 And, who do you think made God, Pumpkin?<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: Simple&#8230; Santa Claus!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Glory It was a Saturday morning, and Pumpkin had decided that she simply must wake up early and go with Papa for his morning<\/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-505","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\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}