{"id":1437,"date":"2011-12-12T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2011-12-12T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T15:58:43","slug":"outed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2011\/12\/12\/outed\/","title":{"rendered":"Outed"},"content":{"rendered":"

My oldest had a cub scout gathering not too long ago. This one was at a friend’s house, and story-themed. They had a big fire in a firepit, and all the boys got up to tell a tall tale. It was a pretty big crowd, with the boys and their families all sitting in chairs around the fire.<\/p>\n

When each boy’s turn came to tell a story, he stood up in front of the fire in front of the whole crowd.<\/p>\n

My wife and I snuggled up on a bench to watch. The night wore on, and the boys told their stories. All-in-all, a very relaxing time.<\/p>\n

Toward the end, one of the boys started telling the story of \u00a0Rip Van Wynkle:\u00a0“he went up into the hills and took a nap for twenty years.”<\/p>\n

“A twenty year nap?” my oldest interrupted. He jumped to his feet and turned to the crowd. “My dad would love<\/em> that!”<\/p>\n

He pointed at me, just in case anyone wasn’t clear who I was, then burst out laughing.<\/p>\n

Thanks, kiddo.<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth, though, I do enjoy naps, especially ones like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suppose there are worse things he could have said. Even so, I’m still going to get him back.<\/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-1437","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\/s6DpYi-outed","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","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=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}