Prior to the Olympic opening ceremonies, Bob Costas aired an interview with President Obama. He started out by saying he would “confine our question to topics pertaining to these Olympics.”<\/p>\n
My kids were thrilled. They’re big fans of Obama.<\/p>\n
During the interview Bob Costas gave a weird little “Putin is controlling the US-Russia relationship” speech, and then asked “How well do you think you can work with President Putin going forward.”<\/p>\n
“What?” my oldest son said. “That’s not about the Olympics!”<\/p>\n
“Most people perceive your relationship with the Russian president…as being icy. How would you characterize your relationship with President Putin?”<\/p>\n
“That’s not a good question!” My youngest said. “Who are the people he’s talking about?”<\/p>\n
The interview finished up, and we settled back to watch the ceremonies.<\/p>\n
During the ceremonies, not all of the giant floating olympic rings worked. One of them didn’t open up properly.<\/p>\n
“That’s what happens when you’re too ambitious,” Bob said.<\/p>\n
“What?” my oldest said. “That’s mean! They tried to do something amazing, and one little bit didn’t work.”<\/p>\n
“He’s a jerk,” his little brother added. “Why is he even talking?”<\/p>\n
What a great question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is not the Olympic moment that I’d hoped my kids would have… but I’m glad they’re starting to challenge what they hear on television.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-n"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-zq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","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=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}