{"id":423,"date":"2006-03-18T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2006-03-18T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T17:33:00","slug":"the-day-garfield-broke-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/the-day-garfield-broke-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The day Garfield broke my heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We rented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0356634\/\">Garfield: the Movie <\/a> for Tristan a while back.  Beloved was in the video store, and thought it would be a nice innocuous choice, not as violent or annoying as say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0190641\/\">Pokemon<\/a>, but not as mind-numbingly boring as yet another Thomas the Tank Engine escapade.<\/p>\n<p>Tristan loved it.  He loved it so much that we have gone through several DVDs of the animated shorts on subsequent weeks, and have even profited from a dollar-store colouring book and a few library books featuring Garfield.  Good old Garfield &#8211; nothing a mother of preschoolers could possibly find fault with, right?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s lunch time, and I&#8217;m cleaning up leftover cheese omelettes and peanut butter off Simon&#8217;s shirt.  (&#8220;Bibs?  We don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; bibs.  Bibs are for <em>baaaaaabbbbbiiiieeess<\/em>.&#8221;)  <em>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I wipe his mouth and hands, Simon wriggles to be put down.  As I pull the tray away to liberate him from the highchair, obviously not quickly enough to satisfy him, he bellows, &#8220;Move, dumb dog!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh Garfield, my old friend, how could you do this to me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rented Garfield: the Movie for Tristan a while back. Beloved was in the video store, and thought it would be a nice innocuous choice, not as violent or annoying as say, Pokemon, but not as mind-numbingly boring as yet another Thomas the Tank Engine escapade. Tristan loved it. He loved it so much that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/the-day-garfield-broke-my-heart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The day Garfield broke my heart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}