{"id":1228,"date":"2018-08-19T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2018-08-19T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:42:54","slug":"another-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Another Way&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We visited Dave and Chassie yesterday, and as always, I\u2019m amazed how the art of raising children has changed. I admit that I\u2019ve become a little old fashioned in the way I do things and am becoming slower to pick up on the newer techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Locke had just eaten a cookie or cupcake or something that turned his tongue bright blue. Dave said, \u201cHey, your tongue is blue!\u201d Locke didn\u2019t believe it. Now when we were raising kids, my response would have been, \u201cGo look in the mirror!\u201d That\u2019s what I expected Dave to say.<br \/>\nBut to show you how out of touch I am, here\u2019s what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Dave told Locke to stick out his tongue, then he pulled out his phone, took a picture and showed it to Locke. I\u2019m not sure why that fascinated me, but it did. I never in a million years would have thought of that\u2026 I\u2019d have looked for a mirror.<br \/>\nI really don\u2019t know how the younger generation could function without \u201csmart?\u201d phones.<br \/>\nAnd I feel sorry for people that make mirrors\u2026. their future is doomed.<br \/>\n\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We visited Dave and Chassie yesterday, and as always, I\u2019m amazed how the art of raising children has changed. I admit that I\u2019ve become a little old fashioned in the way I do things and am becoming slower to pick &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1228\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}