{"id":1686,"date":"2012-08-31T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T13:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2012-08-31T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T13:54:41","slug":"reassurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2012\/08\/31\/reassurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Reassurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other morning, I decided to make a ham and cheese omelet for breakfast. I didn&#8217;t have any reason for it. It was purely just because I was in the mood for something different.<\/p>\n<p>The kids loved it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow,&#8221; my youngest said. &#8220;This is really good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Glad you like it.&#8221; I said around a mouthful of egg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean it&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew you had it in you,&#8221; his older brother said. &#8220;I just knew it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the big guy for a moment, but could detect no trace of sarcasm or humor. My wife, on the other hand, had her hand over her mouth, covering her smile.<\/p>\n<p>I sighed. &#8220;Thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His good deed done for the day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seminolechronicle.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2012\/07\/26\/50114903ab6f1\">the master egg chef<\/a> nodded and went back to eating.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When does thanks not mean thanks? Aside from when you&#8217;re in a critique group that is&#8230; Enjoy!<\/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":[123,118,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-rc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","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=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}