{"id":1631,"date":"2012-07-06T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2012-07-06T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:42:06","slug":"the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2012\/07\/06\/the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some of you know, I have a middle grade book coming out in 2013 (shameless plug<\/a>). Part of the excitement of having a book come out is watching all the stuff come together. The cover art, for example, is looking fantastic. So is the map. I have printouts lying around the house to show people so I can get their opinion. Also, of course, to brag.<\/p>\n

Hey, at least I’m honest.<\/p>\n

The other day, my oldest son had a very good friend of his over. Stuck in separate classes this past school year, the two boys just haven’t been able to see each other much.\u00a0 They had a great time, running and playing and talking nonstop. After a couple hours,\u00a0as \u00a0I heard them winding down a bit, I went down with the picture of the book cover.<\/p>\n

My son grabbed\u00a0it and showed it to his friend. “This is my daddy’s new book! It’s going to be published<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

I know I’m doing well when one of my kids refers to me as “my daddy,” but I tried to keep a straight face.<\/p>\n

“Wow,” the friend said. “That’s really neat!” He looked at me, his eyes wide. “Do you know what it’s going to be about?”<\/p>\n

“Um,” I said, caught off guard. “Yes. I, uh, wrote it.”<\/p>\n

“You mean it’s all done?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah. It’s – ”<\/p>\n

“Oh.” He handed the picture back to me and ran off to play.<\/p>\n

Sheesh. I get that it’s the next book that matters, but really? Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not that I can’t handle the truth. It’s just that I was kind of hoping it wouldn’t come so quickly…<\/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":[123,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-qj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}