{"id":4785,"date":"2010-12-23T08:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2010-12-23T08:22:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T13:22:41","slug":"a-bedtime-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/a-bedtime-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"A bedtime conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span>t&#8217;s beyond bedtime, and I&#8217;ve gone downstairs to say goodnight to the big boys, who are temporarily sharing a room again while we reconstruct the bedroom recently divested of its mould problem.<\/p>\n<p>The boys are giggling.<\/p>\n<p>Simon:  &#8220;Mom, Tristan is telling me how far away things are!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Me:  &#8220;Is that right?  Well, just be careful what you believe.  Your brother is occasionally full of bananas.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Simon, with admiration in his voice: &#8220;He says Mars is 99 kilometers away from the Earth.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I decide against launching into an explanation of the vagaries of measuring the distance between two celestial bodies orbiting around a common point, and instead simply say, &#8220;Um, not quite. It&#8217;s more like 100 <em>million <\/em>kilometers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Both boys, in unison: &#8220;Whoa!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>*small pause*<\/p>\n<p>Tristan, still sounding impressed: &#8220;I did not know that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I laughed all the way upstairs.  I hope the day never comes that I&#8217;m not smart enough to impress my boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beyond bedtime, and I&#8217;ve gone downstairs to say goodnight to the big boys, who are temporarily sharing a room again while we reconstruct the bedroom recently divested of its mould problem. The boys are giggling. Simon: &#8220;Mom, Tristan is telling me how far away things are!&#8221; Me: &#8220;Is that right? Well, just be careful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/a-bedtime-conversation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A bedtime conversation&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785","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=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4788,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}