{"id":1531,"date":"2012-03-26T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2012-03-26T08:57:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:57:52","slug":"counting-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2012\/03\/26\/counting-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"

The kids and I love collecting waves. The idea is simple: try to get other people to wave to you. Each wave counts as a point. Here’s the article in the Chronicle about it<\/a>. It’s not so much a competitive sport as it is a challenge to see how many we can get as a group.<\/p>\n

A few weekends back, we camped at the Disney campground with my nine-year-old’s cub scout troop. On Saturday, his little brother and I took the boat to the Magic Kingdom while he and his mom did the scouting thing.<\/p>\n

The day was beautiful, so\u00a0 we sat on the back deck instead of staying inside. As we rode to the park, I decided to issue a challenge. “How many waves you think we’ll get?” I asked. “I’m gonna say fifty.”<\/p>\n

“Hmm.” He looked around, then rubbed his chin as if he were thinking hard. “I’m gonna say two thousand.”<\/p>\n

“Two thousand?” I laughed. “There’s no way! Once we get to a hundred, we’re going to be too tired counting to keep going.”<\/p>\n

He smiled at me, his eyes twinkling, and gestured off the side of the boat. “Lot of waves out there.”<\/p>\n

Our eyes met, and he burst out laughing.<\/p>\n

“Okay,” I said. “You win. Two thousand, it is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes the game isn’t won by the whoever plays the best, but by whoever keeps score the best.<\/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-1531","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-oH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","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=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}