{"id":1078,"date":"2011-01-31T06:54:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2011-01-31T06:54:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:54:56","slug":"break-a-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2011\/01\/31\/break-a-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Break a leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cross country meet was at Haggerty High School this past Saturday morning, and the races ended with a lap around a track.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to our two racers, we were also chaperoning a neighbor&#8217;s children, giving us a total of four. With each of them in a different age bracket, my wife and I split up. She managed the starting line. I cheered them on, then met them at the finish.<\/p>\n<p>Everything worked well until the last race, when I found myself at the top of the metal grandstands with four tired children who had decided they wanted to be daredevils.<\/p>\n<p>I called my youngest&#8217;s name sharply as he jumped from seat to seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Daddy,&#8221; he said, hopping up and down on one leg, &#8220;I want to break my leg!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All four kids burst out laughing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then come over here and I&#8217;ll break it for you,&#8221; I growled.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I didn&#8217;t say that last line, but I came really, really close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This wasn&#8217;t exactly the end of my parenting rope, but it was kind of close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[123,122,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-ho","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}