{"id":3728,"date":"2009-01-19T20:25:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2009-01-30T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T17:45:29","slug":"i-tried-my-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/i-tried-my-best\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried my best."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I tried to do my civic duty to teach my kids about Martin Luther King Day and about the historic event of this Tuesday’s inauguration.<\/p>\n

Or, rather, I showed Will a clip of the “I Have a Dream” speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Response: “Mommy, it looks… old.”\u00c2\u00a0 There was another comment, something related to the word “bored” but I’ve blocked it from memory.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re focusing on the positive in the Cold Spaghetti household.<\/p>\n

Later, after a short description of what will happen tomorrow, I read the kids a book about the Office of President of the United States.<\/p>\n

Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 What ACTUALLY happened was that I prepared<\/em> to read them a book about being President.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I\u00c2\u00a0 waited on Kate while she went through the book herself, refused to share, and spent 2 minutes in time out after she ran away with the book shouting “WILL CAN’T SEE MY BOOK!”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually we all sat down together to read it.<\/p>\n

Little Betty Lou from Sesame Street sees the Big Black Car of the President go by and she dreams about all the things she would do if she were President.<\/p>\n

Like give speeches to the United Nations.<\/p>\n

And fly in Air Force One.<\/p>\n

And work in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

And attend the Easter Egg Rolling on the White House Lawn.<\/p>\n

And have a penis.<\/p>\n

You think I’m joking, but I’m pretty sure I added that last part in, just to make sure they were listening.\u00c2\u00a0 And also because we’re all about honesty in this household.<\/p>\n

But you know, maybe I’m wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, I’ve felt strongly that we would see an African American man as President before we’d see a woman in the same role<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 But it happened so soon, and for a man who is approaching the Presidency from a rational perspective.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s wonderful and overwhelming and unbelievable. So unbelievable that everyone seems to believe that this IS a point of change, and that tomorrow, anything is possible.<\/p>\n

I wanted my kids to understand that.<\/p>\n

Instead, Will asks, “Mommy, is tomorrow a school day?”<\/p>\n

“Yes, it is.\u00c2\u00a0 But when you come home, we’ll watch the new President speak on the computer.”<\/p>\n

“Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 But can we play Lego Star Wars first?”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I tried to do my civic duty to teach my kids about Martin Luther King Day and about the historic event of this Tuesday’s inauguration. Or, rather, I showed Will a clip of the “I Have a Dream” speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Response: “Mommy, it looks… old.”\u00c2\u00a0 There was another comment, something related to the word “bored” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94,114],"tags":[84,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728"}],"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=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}