{"id":1456,"date":"2014-08-22T12:08:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2014-08-22T12:10:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:10:58","slug":"life-with-a-four-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"life with a four year old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I hear a small voice mumble in the hallway, &#8220;I need to go potty.&#8221; It&#8217;s Sam, who is never keen on asking permission for anything except going to the bathroom, which is the one thing he would never need permission for in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then go potty,&#8221; I holler.<\/p>\n<p>I hear his door slam shut, then nothing. He&#8217;s gone back into his room. I stick my head through the door, and he&#8217;s laying on his bed with Bear. &#8220;Do you need to go potty?&#8221; I ask. He just looks at me. &#8220;Did you ask if you could go potty?&#8221; I persist. Blank stare.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Maybe I was hearing things.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty seconds later I hear Sam crying in his room. &#8220;What?&#8221; I ask, sticking my head through the door again.<\/p>\n<p>Sam sobs, &#8220;I need to go potty!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I hear a small voice mumble in the hallway, &#8220;I need to go potty.&#8221; It&#8217;s Sam, who is never keen on asking permission for anything except going to the bathroom, which is the one thing he would never need permission for in the first place. &#8220;Then go potty,&#8221; I holler. I hear his [&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\/1456"}],"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=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}