{"id":781,"date":"2005-07-30T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/30\/parents-beware-they-are-coming\/"},"modified":"2005-07-30T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T13:30:00","slug":"parents-beware-they-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/30\/parents-beware-they-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Beware: they are coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After dinner last night, we walked up to the local video store to choose a few movies for the weekend*. The three of us had just enjoyed a great walk and were stepping into the wonderfully cool inside air, when we were confronted with the smiling faces of Greg, Murray, Anthony, and Jeff. (Cue creepy Psycho-esque music.)<\/p>\n<p>Yes: we were looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewiggles.com\/\">The Wiggles<\/a>. And yes, the poster was advertising a concert, coming soon to a venue near us. Paul and I groaned as Will gleefully called out to them and began pointing and jabbering. &#8220;Come on, Will, let&#8217;s go look at the movies inside!&#8221; we said. No avail. Paul worked on distraction while I quickly picked out three** and we got the heck out.<\/p>\n<p>So now, the question: Do we take our kid to the Wiggles next weekend?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">* It is important to appreciate the magnitude of this statement.  Renting movies is a Big Deal to parents.  This is the second time we&#8217;ve rented a movie in well over a year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">** Napoleon Dynamite, Hotel Rwanda, Million Dollar Baby (rent two, get one free)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dinner last night, we walked up to the local video store to choose a few movies for the weekend*. The three of us had just enjoyed a great walk and were stepping into the wonderfully cool inside air, when we were confronted with the smiling faces of Greg, Murray, Anthony, and Jeff. (Cue creepy [&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\/781"}],"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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}