{"id":29576,"date":"2022-02-25T04:20:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T10:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29576"},"modified":"2022-02-25T04:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T10:20:13","slug":"the-source-of-that-thing-the-kids-always-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/25\/the-source-of-that-thing-the-kids-always-say\/","title":{"rendered":"The Source Of That Thing The Kids Always Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my children have taken to shouting, &#8220;Hog rider!&#8221; with a particular inflection.  Apparently, this is the call of one of the units in the game <a href=\"https:\/\/clashofclans.fandom.com\/wiki\/Hog_Rider\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Clash of Clans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which has led me to text them or to say, &#8220;Hog writer!&#8221;  The youngest corrected me, believing I was getting it wrong, but eventually, he caught on that I was shining him on.<\/p>\n<p>When I had a spare moment, I created an image to share with them at appropriate moments.  Like whenever they bother me with text messages asking for a ride.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/hogwriter.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh, the things I do to torment my offspring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my children have taken to shouting, &#8220;Hog rider!&#8221; with a particular inflection. Apparently, this is the call of one of the units in the game Clash of Clans. Which has led me to text them or to say, &#8220;Hog writer!&#8221; The youngest corrected me, believing I was getting it wrong, but eventually, he caught [&hellip;]<\/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-29576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29576","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=29576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29577,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29576\/revisions\/29577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}