{"id":2058,"date":"2007-09-24T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/botch-a-me-i-botch-a-you-and-evrything-goes-crazy\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T01:47:00","slug":"botch-a-me-i-botch-a-you-and-evrything-goes-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/botch-a-me-i-botch-a-you-and-evrything-goes-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Botch-a me, I botch-a you, and ev&#8217;rything goes crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scene: me reading a bedtime story to Will, us lying together on his bed.  Paul enters with Kate, who is hanging upside in his arms and shouting &#8220;MAMA&#8221; and something that sounds a lot like &#8220;COWABUNGA&#8221; over and over again.  He puts Kate down on the bed, where she throws herself on top of me in a loud grunt. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someone demanded YOU,&#8221; he explains.  I understand his position.  Who is he to argue with her?  He is mortal, after all. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kate has grabbed my shirt, pulled it up, and planted The Mother of All Zerbers directly on my belly.  She looks up at us all and laughs.<\/p>\n<p>I turn to Will.  &#8220;Will, I think Daddy needs to finish your story.  It seems Baby Kate needs me for a few minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Will (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">in a voice of experience<\/span>): &#8220;I know.  Because Katey is a Wild Animal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/Rvho1SjL-xI\/AAAAAAAACk0\/lNVFtyu_Avo\/s1600-h\/IMG_4255.JPG\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/Rvho1SjL-xI\/AAAAAAAACk0\/lNVFtyu_Avo\/s400\/IMG_4255.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5113952641600977682\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene: me reading a bedtime story to Will, us lying together on his bed. Paul enters with Kate, who is hanging upside in his arms and shouting &#8220;MAMA&#8221; and something that sounds a lot like &#8220;COWABUNGA&#8221; over and over again. He puts Kate down on the bed, where she throws herself on top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058"}],"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=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}