{"id":2279,"date":"2013-01-26T20:21:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2013-01-26T20:21:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:21:48","slug":"cant-you-take-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2013\/01\/cant-you-take-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"can&#8217;t you take a joke?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, Veronica has been insisting that Owl begins with the letter N. We have scratched our heads over this. She&#8217;s known her letters and their sounds for two years now. Maybe she thinks that because we say &#8220;an&#8221; owl&#8230;a nowl?&#8230;<br \/>\ntonight reading Dr. Suess&#8217;s ABCs, she said it again&#8230;&#8221;Owl starts with the letter N!&#8221;<br \/>\ni decided to tickle and tell her she was silly. She shrieked with delight, &#8220;OWL STARTS WITH THE LETTER N!&#8221;<br \/>\npreschool humor can be subtle&#8230;this was her idea of a joke&#8230;not bad&#8230;reminding mommy and daddy not to be so serious about this alphabet thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, Veronica has been insisting that Owl begins with the letter N. We have scratched our heads over this. She&#8217;s known her letters and their sounds for two years now. Maybe she thinks that because we say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2013\/01\/cant-you-take-a-joke\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}