{"id":4796,"date":"2009-04-14T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:23:09","slug":"dueling-precocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/dueling-precocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Dueling Precocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VodkaPundit tries to <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2009\/04\/06\/conversations-with-a-three-year-old\/\" target=\"_blank\">start something<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After strapping the boy into his car seat, I got in myself and checked to see if the next song on the iPod was inappropriate. &#8220;Son, would you like to hear a really good song?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s Earth, Wind &#038; Fire, and it&#8217;s really funky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pressed play and watched his face as &#8220;Shining Star&#8221; started to play way too loud.<\/p>\n<p>Preston sat, listened, judged, pronounced: &#8220;It&#8217;s not funky enough.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last night, I offered to sing &#8220;You Are My Sunshine&#8221; (first verse only) to our two-year-old, and he declined.  He wanted to hear the &#8220;Hi, Hi, Hi&#8221; song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know that song,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Minne the Moocher&#8217;,&#8221; he said clearly.<\/p>\n<p>Top that, Martini Boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VodkaPundit tries to start something: After strapping the boy into his car seat, I got in myself and checked to see if the next song on the iPod was inappropriate. &#8220;Son, would you like to hear a really good song?&#8221; &#8220;Yeah!&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s Earth, Wind &#038; Fire, and it&#8217;s really funky.&#8221; Pressed play and watched his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796","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=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17059,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions\/17059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}