{"id":1842,"date":"2013-03-04T01:08:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T06:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2013-03-04T01:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T06:08:23","slug":"yikes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2013\/03\/04\/yikes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Daddy, do you think I could be a writer?&#8221; my ten-year old asked me the other day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course! Why not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there are going to be any books by then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course there will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No.&#8221; He shook his head. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s all going to be electronic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I explained that there would still be books, but they&#8217;d just be in a different form.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t seem convinced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is, perhaps, the most frightening conversation a writer could have with a ten-year old.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-c"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-tI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","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=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}