{"id":256,"date":"2008-03-31T20:20:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2008-04-01T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T17:50:30","slug":"you-look-so-good-in-the-shoes-of-an-outcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/you-look-so-good-in-the-shoes-of-an-outcast\/","title":{"rendered":"you look so good in the shoes of an outcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days I&#8217;ve been having a hard time reining in my annoyance over Gus&#8217;s admittedly completely typical 6 yr old behavior. Things like being so severely poky in the mornings that he will only make it the bus if his trusty valet gets him dressed + shod. Or being completely unable to sit still\/facing forward\/on his butt at the dinner table for even a minute. Or the whining over having to eat healthy food in order to have some dessert. Oh, I am a cruel parent, so cruel!<\/p>\n<p>But today I suddenly Got Over It. And things were better. There was still lots of wiggling at the dinner table, but Gus accidentally started wiping his mouth with his sock which provided a good opportunity for giggles. (I&#8217;m still not sure how it happened &#8212; he really didn&#8217;t even know he was doing it!)<\/p>\n<p>After dinner he taught me how to play Super Mario Galaxy: &#8220;Mommy, why haven&#8217;t you played this game? Daddy and I are experts. I&#8217;ll teach you.&#8221; Not that I told him this, but I haven&#8217;t played it because he is hogging it! I guess it is his game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days I&#8217;ve been having a hard time reining in my annoyance over Gus&#8217;s admittedly completely typical 6 yr old behavior. Things like being so severely poky in the mornings that he will only make it the bus if his trusty valet gets him dressed + shod. Or being completely unable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}