{"id":1740,"date":"2012-10-26T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2012-10-26T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T14:07:02","slug":"making-waves-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2012\/10\/26\/making-waves-in-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Waves in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

During part of our Houston trip this past week, I took the boys to the Houston Aquarium. We had a ton of fun. Afterward, the weather was sunny but cool – perfect for driving.\u00a0I decided to take the city streets back to the hotel instead of the highway.<\/p>\n

We kept the windows open, and the boys decided to start collecting waves. If you’re not familiar with it, collecting waves is a game where you try to get as many people as possible to wave to you (here’s an article about it<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As people waved back, the boys’ enthusiasm increased. Tentative one-handed waves and hesitant smiles turned into huge two-handed gestures with shouts of “Hello, Houston!” and “Peace!”<\/p>\n

We collected smiles from pedestrians, waves from other drivers, even a peace-sign from a bus driver.<\/p>\n

’cause that’s just how we roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you do when sitting in traffic in downtown Houston? Well, if you have an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old in the car, there really isn’t much choice. You make waves, lots and lots of waves. 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":[118,122,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-embarassing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-s4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","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=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}