{"id":896,"date":"2012-08-03T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T10:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/dad\/?p=896"},"modified":"2012-08-03T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T10:23:17","slug":"tidbits-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2012\/08\/tidbits-july-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits: July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rise!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the launch of The Dark Knight Rises, and superheroes were on everyone&#8217;s mind. Since Tiger is a big fan of several superheroes, I couldn&#8217;t help ask him about it&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Papa: Tiger, if you could be one superhero, who would you be: Superman, Spiderman or Batman?<\/p>\n<p>Tiger: <em>(after thinking for a second)<\/em> Spiderman!<\/p>\n<p>Tiger: <em>(after another second)<\/em>, but with a Batmobile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tiger: <em>(after another second)<\/em>, and with Superman&#8217;s cape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What more could one want?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>House vs Home<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One evening, at dinner, Pumpkin (now, eight) was talking about a lesson in school that taught them about houses&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pumpkin: Mama, can I tell you about houses?<\/p>\n<p>Mama: Sure, you can.<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: Houses have a roof, a door and windows. Houses keep us warm in the winter&#8230; etc. etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She was talking about the various properties of houses, and we figured that Tiger (now, four and a half) shouldn&#8217;t feel left out of the conversation. So, we involved him too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mama: Tiger, what do YOU think a house should have?<\/p>\n<p>Tiger:<em> (thinks for a second and then answers)<\/em> Love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enough said, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rise! It was the launch of The Dark Knight Rises, and superheroes were on everyone&#8217;s mind. Since Tiger is a big fan of several<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","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\/896","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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}