{"id":5764,"date":"2010-03-26T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2010-03-26T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:38:06","slug":"thanks-wall-street-journal-magazine-for-that-uncomfortable-conversation-with-my-preschooler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/thanks-wall-street-journal-magazine-for-that-uncomfortable-conversation-with-my-preschooler\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Wall Street Journal Magazine, For That Uncomfortable Conversation With My Preschooler"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was eating breakfast with a magazine spread before me. This time, it was the new slick that the Wall Street Journal<\/em> bundles with its paper. I’m looking at this story, somehow involving a woman and an exercise bike. I forget anything beyond that.<\/p>\n

\n\"Woman<\/p>\n

“What is she doing?” my three-year-old asks.<\/p>\n

“She’s riding an exercise bike,” I reply.<\/p>\n

“I think she’s in bed,” he says.<\/p>\n

“Uh huh,” I respond in that recognition that he’s being imaginative and contrarian as three-year-olds are when they’re not sleeping and sometimes when they’re eating.<\/p>\n

Then I glanced at the left hand page.<\/p>\n

(UPDATE:<\/font> John wants a NSFW label on this post. I initially didn’t put one on it because it was SFWSJ. However, in hope of getting more traffic, here it is: Potentially NSFW<\/strong>. That made you click the Read More link even faster, didn’t it?)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n\"Woman<\/p>\n

“I guess you’re right, she is in bed,” I say.<\/p>\n

“What is she doing?” the boy asks.<\/p>\n

“She’s sleeping on high quality bedding,” I say.<\/p>\n

“She doesn’t have any clothes on,” the boy says. “She’s in the air.”<\/p>\n

“She shouldn’t be bouncing on the bed like that,” I impart the important lesson and turn the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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