{"id":1335,"date":"2011-09-09T08:01:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T13:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2011-09-09T08:01:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T13:01:48","slug":"shadow-ninja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2011\/09\/09\/shadow-ninja\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Ninja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, the kids and I started playing Ninja, which is a lifestyle game I made up. Basically, the idea is to sneak up on each other and shout &#8220;Ninja!&#8221; If you surprise the person, you get a point. Conversely, if you catch a person sneaking up on you, you shout &#8220;Samurai!&#8221; to prevent the Ninja (and get the point).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious, you can find all the details in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seminolechronicle.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2011\/08\/11\/4e42a3c1e816c\">this newspaper article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The other morning, my oldest slept late. Not wanting to wake him, his little brother and I sat down on the couch so he could read to me. It was an incredibly peaceful moment, sitting on the couch and\u00a0sharing a book with my seven-year old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samurai!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We turned just as my oldest staggered bleary-eyed out of his bedroom, his hair sticking up every which way.<\/p>\n<p>There was a pause as the three of us looked at each other, and then his little brother started giggling. &#8220;There wasn&#8217;t anyone there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You Samurai&#8217;d nobody!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The big guy yawned, shook his head in disgust, and walked back into his bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say I blame him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having trouble waking up in the mornings? Just add Ninjas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123,118,120,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-embarassing","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-lx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}