{"id":12149,"date":"2012-11-19T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12149"},"modified":"2012-11-19T15:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:08:24","slug":"not-100-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/not-100-accurate\/","title":{"rendered":"Not 100% Accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Hey, Dad,” my six-year-old son said as I passed by his doorway this weekend. “You know that war we had with the British?”<\/p>\n

“We have had two, not counting miscellaneous guerrilla skirmishing amongst them,” I said.<\/p>\n

“The one with the fort?” He gestured at something atop his cabinet, formerly known as his changing table. “With the rockets.”<\/p>\n

I stepped into the room and looked at what he had created.<\/p>\n

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I knew what he was talking about simply by War with the British<\/em> and fort<\/em>. I’d explained the origin of the Star-Spangled Banner to him once after singing the first verse of it to him, and he remembered it.<\/p>\n

And when told to take a little time and be quiet because he and his brother were climbing the walls and severing his father’s last nerve, he took a little time to plant a small flag he got from the school Veteran’s Day assembly, a small contingent of World War 2 era little green army men, and a cannon from a set of Civil War soldiers to stage his own defense of it. Of course, being six, he missed the fact that it was a naval bombardment. But I don’t think I really got into that during my explanation of the song which was a more thematic than historic lecture.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I know. If you’re the parents of homeschooled superspawn, this is small beans (“Why, my four-year-old and two-year old built a scale replica of the attack on Fort Sumter, and I don’t know where they got the saltpeter to make their own gunpowder!”), you’re all “Meh” about this accomplishment. But I was, and am, impressed with the boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hey, Dad,” my six-year-old son said as I passed by his doorway this weekend. “You know that war we had with the British?” “We have had two, not counting miscellaneous guerrilla skirmishing amongst them,” I said. “The one with the fort?” He gestured at something atop his cabinet, formerly known as his changing table. “With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12151,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions\/12151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}