I was up early this \u00a0morning doing some programming. When my youngest son woke up, he saw the light and came upstairs to say good morning.<\/p>\n
“Good morning,” I said. “Sleep well?”<\/p>\n
“Yep.” He looked at my computer screen, which was filled with windows of code. “What are you working on?”<\/p>\n
“That’s programming code.” I said. “It’s called PHP, and it’s what I write in to develop databases for my clients.”<\/p>\n
“Code?” He looked closer. “It’s a really big code.”<\/p>\n
“No, it’s not a<\/em> code,” I said. “It’s just code. It’s what I use to make software.”<\/p>\n He stepped back from my desk. “You write in code? Why? Can’t you just use regular words?”<\/p>\n “I do, but they’re, um, words in a different language. It’s instructions for the computer to do what I want.”<\/p>\n “The instructions have to be in a code that’s in a different language?”<\/p>\n I sighed.\u00a0Early mornings are not designed for teaching moments. \u00a0“Yep,” I said. “That’s about right.”<\/p>\n “Wow. That’s hard.”<\/p>\n Who’s on first? I just can’t remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This one felt like I was trapped in a Laurel and Hardy routine, but it’s funny now. 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":[122,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-uG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","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=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}