{"id":1871,"date":"2013-04-08T07:38:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2013-04-08T07:38:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:38:38","slug":"gotcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2013\/04\/08\/gotcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotcha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the game this past Saturday, we decided to swing by Sonny&#8217;s to get a little barbeque. The kids have developed a real love for ribs, so it was also a treat for them. As we pulled into the parking lot, my oldest son gave a whoop of victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All you can eat ribs! Look! Look! It&#8217;s all you can eat ribs!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His little brother cheered.<\/p>\n<p>I glanced at the sign. &#8220;Oop. Sorry guys. The special is drive-through only. We were going to eat in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All the energy drained from the car. &#8220;Aw, man!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I pulled into a parking space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wait a minute,&#8221; my youngest said. &#8220;How could they do all you can eat in the drive through?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My wife chuckled.<\/p>\n<p>Both kids groaned. &#8220;Da-addy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heh, heh, heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great thing about this victory is that the payback is going to be just as much fun. Or at least I hope it will.<\/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":[123,118,122,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6DpYi-gotcha","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","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=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}