{"id":201,"date":"2009-08-17T23:11:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T03:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crankopotamus.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2009-11-22T23:45:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T03:45:14","slug":"someone-here-is-gettin-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/someone-here-is-gettin-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone here is gettin&#8217; old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Scene: A picnic table at <a href=\"http:\/\/kimballfarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kimball Farm.<\/a> It is Nate&#8217;s sixth birthday. <strong>Nate <\/strong>is eating a giant dish of chocolate ice cream. <strong>Sandy <\/strong>is eating a giant dish of lemon sherbet. <strong>Dad<\/strong> has gone in search of a dessert that does not contain lactose.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dad <\/strong>enters, carrying a giant chocolate chip cookie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nate: <\/em>Can I try some?<\/p>\n<p><em>Dad: <\/em>No way. This is <em>my <\/em>dessert.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nate looks disconsolate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dad: <\/em>That is your dessert. This is my dessert.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dad winks at Sandy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dad: <\/em>&#8220;This is my rifle, this is my gun&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Nate: <\/em>This is my Slinky.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-203 alignnone\" title=\"Slinky\" src=\"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/photo_081709_002-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Slinky\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/photo_081709_002-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/photo_081709_002-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/photo_081709_002.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scene: A picnic table at Kimball Farm. It is Nate&#8217;s sixth birthday. Nate is eating a giant dish of chocolate ice cream. Sandy is eating a giant dish of lemon sherbet. Dad has gone in search of a dessert that does not contain lactose. Dad enters, carrying a giant chocolate chip cookie. Nate: Can I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/someone-here-is-gettin-old\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Someone here is gettin&#8217; old<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nate","category-sandy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}