{"id":1717,"date":"2006-11-11T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/11\/would-snuffleupagus-have-been-a-better-choice\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T18:05:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T01:05:29","slug":"would-snuffleupagus-have-been-a-better-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/11\/would-snuffleupagus-have-been-a-better-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Snuffleupagus have been a better choice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was Bud’s Broiler<\/a>, not Port of Call<\/a>, that cooked up Paul’s first hamburger in 16 years. Will, who has been asking for nothing but hamburger for 4 days straight, was in heaven. It was in this memorable moment, between dipping his burger bites into his little cup of red-eye, that Will turned to me and clearly asked:<\/p>\n

“Mommy, d’you havea pee-nus?”<\/p>\n

I blinked and cleared my throat, quickly looking to catch the eyes of fellow diners, glancing over with smiles. Is this a conversation that we want to get into now? Here? <\/span><\/p>\n

“No, Will. Mommies and little girls do not have them. And remember,” switching to a loud whisper, “we talk about penises at home, right?”<\/p>\n

“Okay, Mommy.”<\/p>\n

Pause. Another bite of burger goes in.<\/p>\n

“Mommy?”<\/p>\n

“Yes, Will?”<\/p>\n

“Does Granna have a pee-nus?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was Bud’s Broiler, not Port of Call, that cooked up Paul’s first hamburger in 16 years. Will, who has been asking for nothing but hamburger for 4 days straight, was in heaven. It was in this memorable moment, between dipping his burger bites into his little cup of red-eye, that Will turned to me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[84,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4469,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}