{"id":1253,"date":"2013-08-05T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2013-08-24T08:15:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T13:15:44","slug":"scenes-from-the-mundane-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"scenes from the mundane: batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXT. MOMMY&#8217;S CAR, A.K.A. ELLIOTT &#8212; EARLY EVENING<\/p>\n<p>The Williams family heads home after a day of swimming. MOMMY and DADDY are listening to music. LYDIA is staring out of the window, daydreaming. SAM is playing with a singing alphabet toy, commonly known as &#8216;W.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><center>SAM<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it.<br \/>\nMommy? It need a batteries in it.<\/p>\n<p>MOMMY<br \/>\nWe dont&#8217; have any batteries in the car, sweetie.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll get some when we get home.<\/p>\n<p>SAM<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it.<\/p>\n<p>MOMMY<br \/>\nWhen we get home, baby.<\/p>\n<p>SAM<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it.<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it.<\/p>\n<p>DADDY<br \/>\nSam, we don&#8217;t have any batteries. You&#8217;ll have to wait<br \/>\nuntil we get home, then we&#8217;ll get some batteries. Okay?<\/p>\n<p>SAM<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it.<\/p>\n<p>MOMMY<br \/>\nYou need to wait, Sam.<\/p>\n<p>SAM<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it.<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it.<br \/>\n(more frustrated)<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it!<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it!<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it!<\/p>\n<p>LYDIA<br \/>\nSAM! We&#8217;ll get some when we get home!<\/p>\n<p>Everybody in the car is silent for a minute.<br \/>\nLYDIA sighs. SAM looks up.<\/p>\n<p>SAM<br \/>\nIt need a batteries in it.<\/p>\n<p>LYDIA, MOMMY, and DADDY groan. <\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">FADE TO BLACK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXT. MOMMY&#8217;S CAR, A.K.A. ELLIOTT &#8212; EARLY EVENING The Williams family heads home after a day of swimming. MOMMY and DADDY are listening to music. LYDIA is staring out of the window, daydreaming. SAM is playing with a singing alphabet toy, commonly known as &#8216;W.&#8217; SAM It need a batteries in it. Mommy? It need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}